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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 15407
Released: January 27, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A drafted brooklyn writer contends with a sadistic drill sergeant and other hardships in mississippi boot camp. From the neil simon play. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Corey Parker Matthew Broderick Run time: 106 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Mike Nichols
Description of Biloxi Blues:
Part 2 of Neil Simon's semiautobiographical theater trilogy about his growth from adolescence into adulthood, this film was a vast improvement over the film version of Brighton Beach Memoirs. Directed by Mike Nichols and starring Broadway star Matthew Broderick as Simon's stand-in, Eugene Jerome, the story follows him from the nest of Brooklyn to army basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi, where he gets his introduction to the world beyond Coney Island. He encounters, among other things, racism, a drill sergeant who seems to be a nutcase (a hilarious Christopher Walken), and his introduction to paying sex (Broderick is particularly funny in this scene with Park Overall). Extremely entertaining mainstream fare done in a high-quality fashion. --Marshall Fine
Biloxi Blues Reviews:
Christopher Walken at his best 
2009-11-15 - Although not the intended star of this movie, Christopher Walken gives what I think is his best performance in this film. He plays a disturbed drill sergeant. Well worth viewing.
WWII bullies in basic 
2009-08-25 - Movies about Army or Marine basic training always
talk about how hard it is.
Young men with no military training are put together
with a sergeant who has the task of making them able
march, obey orders and fire a weapon.
For some people obeying orders is not a task they want.
In this movie there are three sorts of bullies:
1) big private next to you
2) the sergeant
3) the Jewish intellectual
The problem of homosexuality in the services during
WWII as being a crime is also touched on.
From my own experience in the Army the picture didn't seen too
realistic. I like some of the humor, but that wasn't
enough to revive the result for me.
The crazy sergeant with the metal plate in his head
just didn't ring true.
Not my fvorite movie 
2009-06-21 - Biloxi Blues had its good points, had some great funny parts, but it is not a movie I would watch over and over again. Just doesn't have the appeal to me. Should you see it, by all means, watch all the movies you can, you might like it more then I did.
As expected 
2009-05-25 - Great fast service - the dvd was sent and arrived within days of my order - will use again
Nostalgic Movie.
2009-03-19 - This moves seems to be a very nostalgic piece for Neil Simon. It's about the characters, not so much the environment they find themselves in. It offers good character study, and by the end, someone's almost saying in a whisper "Ahhh, the good old days." Though, at the time, they didn't seem so grand.
