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Biloxi Blues CD1
The movie follows young Eugene Morris Jerome who is shipped from his Brooklyn home to basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi and introduced to adulthood through his experiences with a diverse group of young recruits, a Biloxi beauty, and a local prostitute.
17 March 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 July 1965, New York City, New York, USA
1952
22 September 1942, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
July 15, 2003
Charts a Jewish boy's rite of passage into adulthood during 1943 as an Army Recruit.
January 01, 2000
The movie Mike Nichols has directed from the play is pale, shallow, unconvincing and predictable, and tells us less about the characters than we already know.
June 24, 2006
Suffice it to say it is suicidally against the grain.
August 08, 2003
Great performances elevate Simon's amusing and nostalgic tale.
November 12, 2008
The acting honors are stolen by Christopher Walken.
October 26, 2011
An intelligent, tightly constructed film which manages to satirize both the military and the process of growing up.
October 26, 2011
Perhaps this movie isn't as wise or as profound as Simon wants it to be, but it is certainly a cut above sitcom complacency, and packed with wit and charm.
June 25, 2005
Odd blend of comedy and terrorizing between Broderick and Walken.
March 26, 2009
Playing a character perched precisely on the point between adolescence and manhood, Broderick is enjoyable all the way.
May 20, 2003
With superb performances by Mr. Broderick and Christopher Walken, who plays Mr. Simon's nearly unhinged, very funny variation on the drill sergeant of movie myth, ''Biloxi Blues'' has a fully satisfying lif...[ END HERE ] of its own
October 26, 2011
Broderick acts with a beautifully wary exuberance, full of a puckish vulnerability and anxious, twisted impishness.
October 26, 2011
The combination of Neil Simon and Mike Nichols has the pair of them back to somewhere near their best.