Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
- cadet
- gun
- school shooting
- military academy
- hostile takeover
- military school
- older man younger man relationship
- military funeral
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
George C. Scott
General Harlan Bache
Timothy Hutton
Cadet Major Brian Moreland
Ronny Cox
Colonel Kerby
Sean Penn
Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer
- Tom Cruise — Cadet Captain David Shawn
- John P. Navin Jr. — Derek Mellott
- Billy Van Zandt — Bug
- Evan Handler — Edward West
- Giancarlo Esposito — Cadet Captain J.C. Pierce
- Brendan Ward — Charlie Auden
- Donald Kimmel — Billy Harris
- Timothy Wahrer — Cadet Major John Cooper
- Tim Riley — Hulk
- Jeff Rochlin — Shovel
- Rusty Jacobs — Rusty
- Directed
- Harold Becker
- Written
- Darryl Ponicsan, Robert Mark Kamen
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 301 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
