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Synopsis: Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a military lawyer defending two U.S. Marines charged with killing a fellow Marine at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Although Kaffee is known for seeking plea bargains, a fellow lawyer, Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore), convinces him that the accused marines were most likely carrying out an order from a commanding officer. Kaffee takes a risk by calling Col. Nathan R. Jessep (Jack Nicholson) to the stand in an effort to uncover the conspiracy.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Production: Columbia Pictures
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 26 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
R
Year:
1992
138 min
3,617 Views


We follow JO, still muttering, as she walks into the brick

building which bears the seal of the

UNITED STATES NAVY - JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL'S CORPS

CUT TO:

INT. WEST'S OFFICE - DAY

As JO enters. CAPTAIN WEST and two other officers, GIBBS

and LAWRENCE, sit around a conference table.

GIBBS:

Jo, come on in.

JO:

Thank you, sir.

GIBBS:

Captain West, this is Lt. Commander

Galloway. Jo, you know Mike Lawrence.

JO:

Yes sir.

(to WEST)

Captain, I appreciate your seeing me

on such short notice.

WEST:

I understand there was some trouble

over the weekend down in Cuba.

JO:

Yes sir... This past Friday evening.

Two marines, Corporal Harold Dawson

and Private Louden Downey, entered

the barracks room of a PFC William

Santiago and assaulted him. Santiago

died at the base hospital

approximately an hour later. The NIS

agent who took their statements

maintains they were trying to prevent

Santiago from naming them in a

fenceline shooting incident. They're

scheduled to have a hearing down in

Cuba at 4:
00 this afternoon.

LAWRENCE:

What's the problem?

JO:

Dawson and Downey are both recruiting

poster marines and Santiago was known

to be a screw-up. I was thinking

that it sounded an awful lot like a

code red.

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Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. His works include the Broadway plays A Few Good Men and The Farnsworth Invention; the television series Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and The Newsroom; and the films A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, Moneyball, and Steve Jobs. more…

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