Author: Arun

//Amazon

A U.S. soldier is dead, and military lawyers Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee and Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway want to know who killed him. “You want the truth?” snaps Colonel Jessup (Jack Nicholson). “You can’t handle the truth!” Astonishingly, Jack Nicholson’s legendary performance as a military tough guy in A Few Good Men really amounts to a glorified cameo: he’s only in a few scenes. But they’re killer scenes, and the film has much more to offer. Tom Cruise (Kaffee) shines as a lazy lawyer who rises to the occasion, and Demi Moore (Galloway) gives a command performance. Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, J.T. Walsh, and Cuba Gooding Jr. (of Jerry Maguire fame) round out the superb cast. Director Rob Reiner poses important questions about the rights of the powerful and the responsibilities of those just following orders in this classic courtroom drama. –Alan Smithee –This text refers to the DVD edition.

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//HBO

Bernie LaPlante (Hoffman, Sphere) is not the sort of man you would peg for a hero. A small-time crook by profession, he chances to be the first person on the scene of an airplane crash.

For reasons that are inexplicable, even to himself, he saves the lives of several people on board, one of whom happens to be TV reporter Gayle Gayley (Davis, Stuart Little 2). Unable to identify him at the scene of the accident, Gayley mounts a nationwide campaign to find the Angel of Flight 104.

But it isn’t Bernie that shows up to claim the accolades, and the million dollar reward – it’s garbage collector John Bubber (Garcia, Ocean’s Eleven), who, after a chance encounter with Bernie, has enough details of the night to convince Gayley and the nation that he is the man they’ve been looking for.

Meanwhile, the only reward Bernie gets is a jail term for petty crime. Will truth prevail?

CAST

Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia, Geena Davis