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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Republic Pictures
Salesrank: 14125
Released: January 9, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Martin Sheen makes his directorial debut with this prison drama set on a United States army base in West Germany during the 1960s. As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up against the insanely tyrannical and bigoted prison warden.
Description of Cadence:
Martin Sheen's 1991 directorial debut features Sheen as the disturbed head of a military stockade where the prisoners include a troublemaking Army misfit played by his son Charlie. Private Bean (Charlie Sheen) is thrown into the stockade with a group of five blacks calling themselves the Soul Patrol, and gradually learns teamwork from the men, including their leader Stokes (Laurence Fishburne). Eventually the tug of war between Bean and the bigoted commander reaches a boiling point with tragic conclusions, and Bean learns the meaning of compassion and the difference between right and wrong. The film is nothing particularly inspiring or insightful, but the supporting players, including Fishburne, give solid performances, and Cadence affords the audience a chance to see the father and son team work together in an earnest and well-meaning drama. --Robert Lane
Cadence Reviews:
Oh don't you know... 
2009-05-28 - THE WAR: Vietnam is ongoing, and in more ways than one it's a war of minds, "Hearts and Minds." As an extension, it's a war of leadership and ideals; where prejudice cannot obstruct truth, and disharmony can atrophy the fellowship of camaraderie and the strength of solidarity.
STORY: Young Private Bean (C. Sheen) gets tattoos on his hands, beats an MP, and gets sent to a military stockade under the command of Master Sergeant Otis McKinney (M. Sheen). What Bean finds is that he's not initially welcome amongst his fellow inmates, all black, one of whom is Stokes (Fishburne), but he's also leery about McKinney. He must eventually choose a side, and just like every other black-white movie in existence, learn a dance step from a black person.
PATRIOTISM: True patriotism is having the courage and fortitude to challenge unlawful orders, to stand up in the face of dangerously negligent leadership and defend what is just. To be a patriot is to proud of one's country, and it's impossible to display that pride without believing in and standing up for the ideals that makes a country great. Foreign AND domestic.
FAVORITE BATTLE(S): Any movie in which Charlie Sheen takes a beating is a good one in my book. In this one, Private Bean gets into a scuffle with a fellow inmate, Webb, who has a penchant for kleptomania. Unfortunate for Bean, Private Webb
FAVORITE LINE: That's the sound of the man, working on the chain, ga-e-ang.
THE MESSAGE: Much like the Army's former slogan, "Army of One," Cadence is about unity and solidarity. It's about bonding with fellow soldiers regardless of difference, and to some extent, that's what calling cadence and marching in formation is all about.
Great movie. Highly entertaining. The scenes where the prisoners are marching and singing cadence will be stuck in your head well after viewing. Do yourself a favor and look up "Chain Gang from Cadence" on YouTube. Oh don't you know...
cadence
2008-10-18 - This is one of the best movies of all times. It was not very publisised, but i have loved this movie since i saw it for the first time back in 1991. Its a must see.
Gives clarity to war and race
2008-04-12 - Cadence examines some of the constraints of war - losing a parent with no time to grieve. Bean's grief lead him to getting a tattoo on his hands, against military rule. He landed in a an all black stockade with a racist leader. Bean's most valuabe lessons came when he blended with the other inmates after a rocky start. This movie showed racism from an entirely different perspective - the Vietnam War. The inmates banded together, black and white, showing how circumstances such as war can take away any unimportant differences and allow people to see people for who they are, not their skin color.
cadence purchase
2007-06-02 - the movie was clear and crisp just as if it just came out for the first time i recieved the movie quickly and packed excellently
Cadence 
2007-05-15 - I didn't get the video for myself. It was a gift for a friend, But I can honestly tell you, that I have seen the movie and it is a very good movie! Sometimes I wish I would have kept the movie for myself, but I had promised a friend I would give them the video as a gift.
