In 1992, Aaron Sorkin wrote his first screenplay for a movie. It was originally a Broadway play based on a true story told to him by his sister, a military lawyer.
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It is the story of two military lawyers who are sent to the US base at Guantanamo Bay to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a Marine who died after being attacked in his room by two other colleagues.
Faced with a wall of silence from the officers and soldiers, there is only one solution: to take the witness stand by the man in charge of the base himself, Colonel Nathan Jessup, authoritarian, arrogant and full of himself. Everyone obeys with a finger and an eye.
Hearing about this play, a certain Alan Horne (the future president of Warner Bros.) became interested in it for a film adaptation, which he entrusted to director Rob Reiner.
After trying his hand at a drama (Stand by Me), a romantic comedy (When Harry Met Sally) and a fantasy film (The Princess Bride), the latter takes a legal thriller here. And it’s clear that he’s made a great experimental film, in the grand tradition of Hollywood.
Men of Honor is based on a solid script, of course in a classic style, but always with rich requests, dialogues that emphasize and above all an impressive cast, of which Rob Reiner knows how to get the best. from the left.
In addition to Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon and JT Walsh and Kevin Pollack, Jack Nicholson stands out in particular thanks to a scene that remains famous, where he lets his anger explode in the skin of the famous Colonel Nathan Jessup. .
A roughly fifteen-minute performance that earned him an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
honorable men Rob Reiner with Tom Cruise, Kevin Bacon, Jack Nicholson…
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