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Biloxi Blues (1988)

Comedy | 106 minutes
3,14 181 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 106 minuten

Alternative title: Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues

Country: United States

Directed by: Mike Nichols

Stars: Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken and Matt Mulhern

IMDb score: 6,7 (17.399)

Releasedate: 25 March 1988

Biloxi Blues plot

"The Army made Eugene a man. But Daisy gave him basic training!"

It's 1943. For the first time in his life, Eugene Morris Jerome has to leave his familiar Brooklyn neighborhood when he goes to a Marine training camp in Mississippi's deep south Biloxi. Expecting to find donuts and fun, however, the young writer is confronted with the fact that training for a war army is a struggle for survival. Along with a platoon of lanky, blundering young recruits, Eugene learns discipline the hard way from the usually unpredictable sergeant instructor Merwin J. Toomey. He has to prepare the rookies as quickly as possible into tough fighting men.

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rep_robert

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Biloxi Blues is a pleasant film that evokes nostalgic feelings. The cast in particular is very nice, with a very special Christopher Walker as a drill instructor as a standout. It doesn't have much in terms of plot, but the mutual bond and arguments are brought to the fore in an infectious way thanks to the actors.

3.5*

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Insignificance

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Melancholy with a smile. A reminiscence of young army years and if you can go along with that, this must be a little gem. The film is that sympathetic. I have a little more trouble with that, although there is something that will always stay with me. And that's the opening scene.

Pat Suzuki's swooning version of the jazz standard How High The Moon, while the camera starts with a close up of Broderick on a train, after which it zooms out further and further, the subtitles start and the voice about the time and the explains Eugene's thoughts.

The melancholy, nostalgia or whatever you want to call it, oozes from it. In that regard, Because I was young is the quote from the film. One that, apart from Toomey, is mild in almost all respects, but also lacks just too much appeal to really appeal.

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scorsese

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Good film in which a number of young men are trained as soldiers in a training camp. The film lacks a bit of direction during the first half. The scenes individually are all good and the relationships between the characters are well portrayed. Christopher Walken is excellently cast.

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