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Basic (2003)
6.3
Ratings: 6.3/10 from 30,742 users
Metascore:
34/100
Reviews: 275 user | 119 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com
A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry. Director:John McTiernanWriter:James Vanderbilt |
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| Connie Nielsen | ... | ||
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Mueller
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| Cristián de la Fuente | ... |
Castro
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Nunez
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| Harry Connick Jr. | ... |
Vilmer
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Georgia Hausserman | ... |
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Margaret Travolta | ... |
Nurse #1
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Dena Johnston | ... |
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Helicopter Pilot
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Storyline
Tom Hardy, an ex-Army Ranger turned DEA agent, is drawn into an ever-widening mystery surrounding the disappearance of the feared and often hated Sgt. Nathan West, as well as several of his elite Special Forces trainees on what appears, at first, to have been a routine training exercise during a hurricane in the jungles of Panama. Only two survivors are found, Dunbar, and a badly wounded Kendall, the son of a high-profile Joint Chiefs of Staff official. Neither is willing to cooperate with Capt. Julia Osborne's investigation. So base commander Col. Bill Styles calls in ex-Ranger Hardy, an old friend and a persuasive interrogator. Osborne disapproves of Hardy who is on leave from the D.E.A. after having come under suspicion of accepting bribes from local drug traffickers. She is also uneasy when she learns that Hardy once trained under West and hates him almost as passionately as his current recruits... Written by Sujit R. Varma
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Basic - Hinter jeder Lüge eine Wahrheit See more »Box Office
Budget:
$50,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$11,511,960 (USA) (30 March 2003) (2876 Screens)Gross:
$26,536,120 (USA) (4 May 2003)Company Credits
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Osbourne: [narration] The French tried to build a canal here before the Americans. At the height of their effort, 500 workers were dyin' a week from malaria and yellow fever. They couldn't come up with cemetary space fast enough. Not to mention the morale problem all those crosses would have made...
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Written & Performed by Bruno Coon
Performed by The Africowboys See more »
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In order to give Roselyn Sanchez the proper posture, John McTiernan had her wear a 50-pound bag of sand on the front of her belt while at the same time told her to imagine herself as a Las Vegas showgirl. See more »Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Osborne opens Dunbar's note to read it, and then misreads "somebody" as "someone" and "anybody" as "anyone". See more »Quotes
[first lines]Osbourne: [narration] The French tried to build a canal here before the Americans. At the height of their effort, 500 workers were dyin' a week from malaria and yellow fever. They couldn't come up with cemetary space fast enough. Not to mention the morale problem all those crosses would have made...
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"Comparsa de Los Muertos"Written & Performed by Bruno Coon
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