A Few Good Men | film by Reiner [1992] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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Bacon

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  In Kevin Bacon: Breakthrough in Footloose and later film career
  … and Tommy Lee Jones, and A Few Good Men (1992), supporting Jack Nicholson. Bacon increasingly gravitated toward these smaller, more complex character roles in which he thrived.
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contribution by Sorkin

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  In Aaron Sorkin
  Even before A Few Good Men was staged, Sorkin sold its film rights, and he later adapted the script into an acclaimed 1992 movie starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson.
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Cruise

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  In Tom Cruise
  …as a navy lawyer in A Few Good Men (1992), a vampire in Interview with the Vampire (1994), and a secret agent in Mission: Impossible (1996); the immense popularity of the latter film led to sequels in 2000, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2018, and
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discussed in biography

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  In Rob Reiner: Success as a film director
  The courtroom drama A Few Good Men (1992) depicted the court martial of two marines for the death of a fellow soldier. It featured some of the leading lights of Hollywood at the time, including Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, and Jack Nicholson, who, as a colonel…
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Gooding

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  In Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  …most notable subsequent films were A Few Good Men (1992) and Outbreak (1995), and he also appeared in the 1995 television movie The Tuskegee Airmen. Gooding’s performance in Jerry Maguire as football player Rod Tidwell, a family man who struggles to find the balance between his personal values and the…
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Moore

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  In Demi Moore: Becoming the highest-paid actress in the 1990s
  …in The Butcher’s Wife (1991), A Few Good Men (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), Disclosure (1994), The Scarlet Letter (1995), Now and Then (1995), and The Juror (1996). In addition she lent her distinctive husky voice to Esmeralda for the Disney animated film The Hunchback of Notre
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Nicholson

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  In Jack Nicholson: The Shining, Terms of Endearment, and As Good as It Gets
  …Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, and A Few Good Men (1992), in which his supporting performance as a dyspeptic marine colonel earned him his 10th Oscar nomination, an all-time record for a male actor. His 11th nomination, for his portrayal of a misanthropic writer in As Good as It Gets (1997),…
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Sutherland

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  In Kiefer Sutherland
  …he made notable appearances in A Few Good Men (1992), Freeway (1996), and A Time to Kill (1996). He also performed with his mother onstage in The Glass Menagerie in 1996.
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