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The General's Daughter
1999
When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is raped and murdered, the undercover military investigator (Travolta) assigned to the case discovers a shocking labyrinth of murderous sexual obsession and deceit. Based on the novel by Nelson DeMille. Read more
| Starring | John Travolta, Madeline Stowe, James Cromwell, James Woods |
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| Director | Simon West |
| Genres | Thriller |
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The General's Daughter
When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is raped and murdered, the undercover military investigator (Travolta) assigned to the case discovers a shocking labyrinth of murderous sexual obsession and deceit. Based on the novel by Nelson DeMille.
| Starring | John Travolta, Madeline Stowe, James Cromwell, James Woods, Timothy Hutton, Clarence Williams |
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| Director | Simon West |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 52 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | Czech, German, Hungarian |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 06 Nov 2000 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (5)
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This moderately absorbing military whodunnit is let down by the lazy hamming of star John Travolta. He plays an army cop called in to investigate the horrific rape and murder of a woman officer (Leslie Stefanson), who also happens to be the daughter of top military man James Cromwell. However, as Travolta and colleague Madeleine Stowe start digging, they find some nasty skeletons in Stefanson's closet. Travolta aside, the performances are strong, with James Woods effortlessly stealing the show as one of the prime suspects. Con Air director Simon West demonstrates that there's more to him than just spectacular set pieces, yet the wayward script's derivative twists and turns weaken what should have been a hard-hitting drama.
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"...Twisty and compelling....Intriguing mystery, sultry atmosphere, sharp performances, and a number of muscular dramatic scenes..."
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7 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Average thriller with above average performances
It was okay, certainly I wasn't bored. I won't say the ending is predictable, but its hardly the revelation it makes itself out to be. Enjoyable performances all round (particularly from my beloved James Woods, as always) keep the plot ticking along nicely. A sound choice for an evening's rental.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Psy Ops
Because film is touted as "entertainment" and, as television tells us, entertainment means forget your troubles and enter the world of light fantasy - sort of like eye candy for the brain - the attempts by some Hollywood writers and directors to inform and offer a snack of what's really going on in the military world are generally missed.
"The General's Daughter" is a powerful film that just scrapes the tip of the iceberg called military psychological operations. We get a glimpse of how brutal it is - first, to the general's daughter who has been so traumatized that she has become a perpetrator herself - a sadist who is given a license to practice her sadism on soldiers like the one we barely get a glimpse of as Travolta leaves her office. As she nakedly professes, "We f*** with men's minds." Her staked-out nakedness before her murder is her naked statement of how her mind has been mucked with, and the position of her stake-out? Remember Leonardo da Vinci?
The weak part of the film is the love relationship that appears to be just thrown in, perhaps to add the softening effect of another woman to an otherwise brutally hierarchic, secretive masculine military subculture. That relationship could have been made much more interesting and even reflective of what had gone wrong in the General's daughter. Still better than average simply for the little glimpse we get of a nasty Guantanamo Bay mindset. -
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Be Cool, starring John Travolta and Uma Thurman, is now available on DVD in the UK. The film is a sequel to Get Shorty, and is directed by F Gary Gray. Travolta, who has appeared in Basic, Swordfish and The General's Daughter, plays the role of Chili Palmer, the star of the first film, who has moved from the movie industry to the music business. He finds himself in danger though from Russian mafia, and he has to rely on his smooth talking and negotiating skills to stay alive. Travolta is joined Read more
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When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is raped and murdered, the undercover military investigator (Travolta) assigned to the case discovers a shocking labyrinth of ... -