Film

A Few Good Men 1992

Directed by Rob Reiner

  • Drama
  • 138 min
  • R

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.

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Earnest, classical in form, contemporary and grave.

  • earnestironic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • gravecomic
  • resolvedopen-ended

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