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Plot:
Memorable mostly as the film that introduced filmgoers to Tom Cruise and Sean Penn, both of whom nearly steal the film from its nominal star, Timothy Hutton. Hutton, fresh from his Oscar for Ordina...( read more 
), plays the top cadet at a private military school run by George C. Scott. When the announcement is made that the school will be closed, the inmates take over the asylum with military precision. Hutton is caught among his sense of duty to mentor Scott, the rabid militarism of cadet Cruise, and the rational arguments of Penn, as Hutton's best friend. Then a cadet kills one of the cops responding to the crisis, and suddenly this game of playing soldiers takes on a warlike atmosphere. But director Harold Becker can't hold it together; Hutton isn't up to carrying the film, and the tension rapidly drains from the Darryl Ponicsan script. --Marshall Fine
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Recent Reviews
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MCT:June 29, 2008it was better than i thought it was going to be but i think they got the plot mixed up which was bit dissapointed
it was like a police academy style film with a bunch of reblious teenages in
and thinking about it tom cruise plays his typical role he goes along with stuff then wen think its okay he does summit stupid and messes up
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MCT:April 11, 2008'Brian Moreland: We have a home here. We think it's something worth defending.'
'Brian Moreland: They want us to be good little boys now so we can fight some war for them in the future. Some war they'll decide on. We'd rather fight our own war right now.'
'Brian Moreland: Sir, how could they do this?
General Harlan Bache: With the stroke of a pen, sir. Their field of honor was a desktop.'
'Brian Moreland: Don't let friendship keep you here.
Alex Dwyer: Don't worry.' -
MCT:February 21, 2008
With a history of having molded young minds during its distinguished history, Gen. Bache is horrified by the mere thought of losing the academy and the young people he has helped to involve in the rich life of the military. After a tragic incident that involves the killing of a townie, Bache suffers a heart attack, leaving the academy in the hands of people that are seen trying to undermine the fallen leader. Brian Moreland, the serious minded young man, takes it into his own hands to take care of what he thinks would be Gen. Bache's reaction in saving the school by getting the rest of the students left at the academy to hold it hostage and not give in to the upcoming changes, or to other people who don't have the same purpose in mind. Perhaps the film is a bit heavy-handed in it's themes and moralizing, and probably isn't as significant as it would hope to be; but this is still quite an effective military drama.
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MCT:January 28, 2008
OUTSTANDING! Great movie, even thought you realize early in the film that the plans the kids have will never work. Tom Cruise set the stage for his future.
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MCT:January 14, 2008Not very realistic, but a very entertaining movie with many young actors who went on to become superstars.
