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4 April 1984 (France)
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Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is homosexual.
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1 win
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Matthew Modine: The Hollywood Interview
(From The Hollywood Interview. 2 November 2009, 10:20 AM, PST)
Director Robert Altman Dies at 81
(From IMDb News. 21 November 2006)
(From The Hollywood Interview. 2 November 2009, 10:20 AM, PST)
Director Robert Altman Dies at 81
(From IMDb News. 21 November 2006)
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Good, hard-hitting drama
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Matthew Modine | ... | Billy | |
| Michael Wright | ... | Carlyle | |
| Mitchell Lichtenstein | ... | Richie | |
| David Alan Grier | ... | Roger | |
| Guy Boyd | ... | Rooney | |
| George Dzundza | ... | Cokes | |
| Albert Macklin | ... | Martin | |
| B.J. Cleveland | ... | Pfc. Bush | |
| Bill Allen | ... | Lt. Townsend | |
| Paul Lazar | ... | MP Lieutenant | |
| Phil Ward | ... | MP Sgt. Kilick | |
| Terry McIlvain | ... | Orderly | |
| Todd Savell | ... | MP Sgt. Savio | |
| Mark Fickert | ... | Dr. Banes | |
| Dustye Winniford | ... | Staff Sergeant |
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118 min
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Netherlands:12 |
South Africa:16LV |
USA:TV-MA (cable rating) |
Australia:M |
Italy:VM14 |
France:-12 |
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The title refers to parachutes that fail to open.
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Referenced in Robert Altman: Art and Soul (2004) (V)
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What A Guy
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Following on the heels of "Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean", Altman brings another play to the screen. Like the earlier movie, this is an intensely serious drama about issues of sexuality and denial. Like the earlier movie, parts of it are extremely strident and/or "stagy", and like the earlier movie, much of it is redeemed by the excellent performances.
Although set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the film is mostly about what goes on inside the heads of a small group of soldiers who are waiting to get shipped out. Much of the story's development is psychological, and not related to the specific period in history... if anything, the characters occasionally seem "too modern", but it's impossible for me to say whether this is actually the case (perhaps done intentionally by the director and screenwriter) or whether my impression of how they "should" have been behaving in the mid-1960s is colored too much by mass-media images from that time.
In any case, Altman and screenwriter David Rabe do a good job of confounding the audience's expectations and providing us with multi-faceted, complex characters, and there are some moments of chilling beauty, as when two older sergeants tell stories of paratroopers who didn't make it. While the issues involved and the serious tone will probably turn a lot of people off, this is a "worthy" member of the Altman canon, and well worth seeking out by anyone who is interested in his "filmed plays" of the 80s or in seeing him work on a small scale.