Biloxi Blues - UPC 025192449123

Plot Outline:
A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon. A New York City teenager named Eugene Jerome enlists in the US Army during the last year of World War II in 1945. Eugene is sent to basic training at Biloxi, Mississippi where he must live with a variety of fellow soldiers from all walks of life while also enduring the whims of a mentally unstable drill sergeant. Based on Neil Simon's play of the same name, "Biloxi Blues" is the sequel to Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs." It takes up with the story of Eugene Jerome as he is on his way to boot camp in Mississippi to train for WWII. He learns the hardships of war through boot camp, to accept other people's differences, falls in love and loses his virginity to a prostitute. He and the other young men must endure the rigorous training and abuse from their drill sergeant played by Christopher Walken.

Certification:Portugal:M/12 Finland:K-12 France:U Spain:13 Sweden:11 UK:15 USA:PG-13 West Germany:16 Singapore:PG Brazil:12 Iceland:12

Quotes: Rowena : What's your name, honey? Eugene Morris Jerome : It's Eug... Rowena : Huge? Eugene Morris Jerome : It's a HUGE name. It's Jack Bobby Lou Mulgreevey. Rowena : Where you from, Bobby Lou? Eugene Morris Jerome : [ affecting a Southern accent] "Texarkana... Rowena : Is that Arkansas or Texas? Eugene Morris Jerome : Arkansas, I think... Rowena : You think? Eugene Morris Jerome : Well, I was just born there. When I was two we moved to Georgia.

Comments:
The characters in this movie are the one thing that make it worth watching. Matthew Brodeick's character is his usual wiseass as he plays 20 year old Brooklynite Jerome just out of boot camp and serving in Mississippi (the worst place at that time for a New Yorker to be) during the final days of the big war. Christopher Walken was great in his usual psychotic role, playing a nicer and more sympathetic version of his "At Close Range" role as their Platoon Sergeant. One striking note of how close-minded thinking was in those days; the most down-to-earth and likable guy in their platoon just happened to be homosexual and payed a nasty price for it and was sent to the San Quentin of military prisons-Leavenworth. And a final word of note: if you look closely on the cover and read Eugene's blood type on his dog tags, it's B negative. In recent days, it's now been believed that a persons blood type is their personality, and Eugene fit the criteria for type B: unconventional, intelligent, empathetic, free-thinking, and difficult to manipulate.

Matthew Broderick	...	Eugene Morris Jerome
Christopher Walken	...	Sgt. Toomey
Matt Mulhern	...	Joseph Wykowski
Corey Parker	...	Arnold Epstein
Casey Siemaszko	...	Don Carney
Michael Dolan	...	Hennesey
Penelope Ann Miller	...	Daisy
Park Overall	...	Rowena
Alan Pottinger	...	Peek
Mark Evan Jacobs	...	Pinelli
David Kienzle	...	Corporal (as Dave Kienzle)
Matthew Kimbrough	...	Spitting Cook
Kirby Mitchell	...	Digger #1
Allen Turner	...	Digger #2
Tom Kagy	...	Digger #3

Biloxi Blues (Matthew Broderick)