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Overview
Release Date:
3 June 1994 (USA) moreTagline:
One Man's Mission To Teach The Few, The Proud... The Impossible! morePlot:
Danny DeVito plays an advertising man who is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Truly nice, for the heartwarmer crowd moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Danny DeVito | ... | Bill Rago | |
| Gregory Hines | ... | Sergeant Cass | |
| James Remar | ... | Captain Tom Murdoch | |
| Ed Begley Jr. | ... | Jack Markin | |
| Lillo Brancato | ... | Pvt. Donnie Benitez (as Lillo Brancato Jr.) | |
| Stacey Dash | ... | Pvt. Miranda Myers | |
| Kadeem Hardison | ... | Pvt. Jamaal Montgomery | |
| Richard T. Jones | ... | Pvt. Jackson Leroy | |
| Khalil Kain | ... | Pvt. Roosevelt Nathaniel Hobbs | |
| Peter Simmons | ... | Pvt. Brian Davis, Jr. | |
| Gregory Sporleder | ... | Pvt. Melvin (as Greg Sporleder) | |
| Mark Wahlberg | ... | Pvt. Tommy Lee Haywood | |
| Cliff Robertson | ... | Colonel James | |
| Ben Wright | ... | Private Oswald | |
| Ann Cusack | ... | Bill's Secretary |
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128 minCountry:
USALanguage:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby SRCertification:
Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | Australia:M | France:U | Germany:6 | Norway:11 | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13MOVIEmeter: 
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After failing to bring in audiences as a comedy under the original title "Renaissance Man", the movie was re-released to theaters a couple months later marketed as a drama with the alternate title "By The Book", and unsurprisingly pulled in far fewer receipts the second time through the theaters. moreGoofs:
Miscellaneous: The underlining under "OXYMORON" changes between when Bill first writes it and when he explains it to Montgomery. moreQuotes:
Bill Rago: [about reading their essay] All right, who wants to start?[no reply]
Bill Rago: Nobody?
[snickers]
Bill Rago: I thought this was the volunteer army...
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LIFE IN THE STREETS moreFAQ
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Army recruits categorized as, shall we say, neither the best nor brightest, but they somehow get turned on when reluctant teacher DeVito reads Shakespeare's Hamlet to them and it hits a chord. The high point of the film is reached when one of those recites on command his "irrelevant" Shakespeare on a rainy night's drill to Sergeant Gregory Hines and finds in his memory from "Henry V" (with lead-in not at hand) "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother." This is a truly nice movie, about heroes but not about touting war. At a later point, my usually stoic wife shed some tears. Danny De Vito is surprising to me. He generally leaps over my expectations, no matter how far I raise them up.