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Award-winning story of four young recruits and two veterans living in an army barracks, awaiting transfer orders to Vietnam. Finding their lives threatened by forces beyond their control they lash out at each other in desperate acts of violence and bloodshed. Read more
| Starring | Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, David Alan Grier |
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| Director | Robert Altman |
| Genres | Drama |
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Another of Altman's gripping demonstrations of how to transform theatre by means of composition and close-up. As in... read more on Time Out
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A night at the theatre
The eighties is usually looked upon as Altman's lost decade, since, after the financial disaster of 'Popeye', he retreated into a string of fairly ... read more »
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unreal and unrealistic
Not so much a film as a video'd play. Can't imagine a normal bunch of soldiers/people/blokes etc saying this script. The odd powerful scene helps rescue... read more »
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Poor substitute for a good play
Dreadful , static version of a stage play, to be avoided.
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A night at the theatre
The eighties is usually looked upon as Altman's lost decade, since, after the financial disaster of 'Popeye', he retreated into a string of fairly ... read more »
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Not a streaming success
From Altman's mid-80s phase of straight adaptations of plays comes this version of David Rabe's piece about tensions simmering in an army barracks. With... read more »