Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed.
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
Director:
Barry Levinson
Stars:
Michael Douglas,
Demi Moore,
Donald Sutherland
160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the US Navy's elite SEAL/C.R.T. selection program. LT. Jordan O'Neill is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O'Neill is determined to prove everyone wrong.Written by
Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Although we are given the impression that Lieutenant O'Neil is going through S.E.A.L. training in this movie and receives a S.E.A.L. trident at the end of the movie, she in fact signed up for the "Combined Reconnaissance Team" selection program at the Navy S.E.A.L.s training center, also referred to in the film as "S.E.A.L./C.R.T." training. The C.R.T., a fictitious special warfare group, brings together operators from across several branches of the service: Navy S.E.A.L.s, Army Delta, Marine Force Reconnaissance, and Navy Intelligence. The latter, of course, is Lieutenant O'Neil.The "real" S.E.A.L. training course is called "BUD/S" (Basic Underwater Demolition/S.E.A.L.). It is six months long, with an average dropout rate of around seventy-five percent. The film's S.E.A.L./C.R.T. course was three months long, "boasting" a sixty percent drop-out rate. The film's S.E.A.L./C.R.T. course included many elements of BUD/S. For S.E.A.L.s, the SERE course and training mission are normally part of S.E.A.L. Tactical Training (STT), another six months of advanced operator training that follows BUD/S. Not until completing STT and further testing does a S.E.A.L. candidate actually receive the coveted gold Trident insignia. In the film, at the end of the selection course, Lieutenant O'Neil is awarded a large silver insignia with the inscriptions "S.E.A.L." and "C.R.T." We are assuming that from there she and the other successful candidates will go on for additional advanced training before actually being deployed on missions. See more »
Goofs
When O'Neil exits the Hummer upon arriving at base, she closes the door behind her but the door does not latch shut. You can see it swinging back open just as the vehicle is leaving the cameras view. See more »
An alternate ending was secretly filmed without the knowledge of Disney/Hollywood Pictures Executives. When Ridley Scott first screened the film for execs, he shocked and surprised them with the ending in which Demi Moore dies. Both endings were test screened simultaneously and although the darker ending scored higher with audiences, the happier ending was chosen by executives. Similar to the surprise ending for "Thelma and Louise", the alternate ending for "G.I. Jane" was a dark yet bittersweet one. Jordan (Moore) is killed when she risks her life to save her Commander (Viggo Mortensen) then eulogized on television by the tough Senator (Ann Bancroft). Later, the camera pans through a fresh group of SEAL recruits, among them are three women. See more »
Two Wrongs Won't Make Things Right
Written by Paula Frazer
Performed by Tarnation
Courtesy of 4AD
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products See more »
G.I.Jane was better than I was expecting. Demi Moore plays a female officer who is trying to become a Navy SEAL and has to battle against the odds against tha sexism, politics amd physical toughness to make the grade. Although totaly predictable in every way I quite enjoyed it.
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G.I.Jane was better than I was expecting. Demi Moore plays a female officer who is trying to become a Navy SEAL and has to battle against the odds against tha sexism, politics amd physical toughness to make the grade. Although totaly predictable in every way I quite enjoyed it.