Directed by:
William FriedkinScreenplay:
Stephen GaghanComposer:
Mark IshamCast:
Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer, Blair Underwood, Philip Baker Hall, Dale Dye, Amidou, Nicky Katt (more)Plots(1)
Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson deliver electrifying performances in this ""tense, superbly-directed and top-drawer drama""* about what happens when the rules that command a soldier become the rules that condemn him. Colonel Terry Childers (Jackson) is a patriot and war hero. But when a peacekeeping mission he leads in Yemen goes terribly wrong, he finds himself facing a court martial. Accused of breaking the rules of engagement by killing unarmed civilians, Childers' only hope of vindication rests with comrade-in-arms Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a military lawyer of questionable abilities. Together, they face the battle of their lives (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Tommy Lee Jones
USA
Best movies:
The Fugitive (1993)
JFK (1991)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Samuel L. Jackson
USA
Best movies:
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Django Unchained (2012)
Goodfellas (1990)
Guy Pearce
UK
Best movies:
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Memento (2000)
The King's Speech (2010)
Ben Kingsley
UK
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Shutter Island (2010)
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie)
Bruce Greenwood
Canada
Best movies:
First Blood (1982)
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
Star Trek (2009)
Anne Archer
USA
Best movies:
The Road to Santiago (1999) (series)
Felon (2008)
The Last of His Tribe (1992) (TV movie)
Blair Underwood
USA
Best movies:
When They See Us (2019) (series)
Gattaca (1997)
The Cover Girl and the Cop (1989) (TV movie)
Philip Baker Hall
USA
Best movies:
The Truman Show (1998)
The Rock (1996)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Dale Dye
USA
Best movies:
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Platoon (1986)
JFK (1991)
Amidou
Morocco
Best movies:
Live for Life (1967)
Ronin (1998)
Wages of Fear (1977)
Nicky Katt
USA
Best movies:
The Dark Knight (2008)
Sin City (2005)
The Cure (1995)
Ryan Hurst
USA
Best movies:
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Taken (2002) (series)
Gordon Clapp
USA
Best movies:
Gross Anatomy (1989)
Matewan (1987)
Running (1979)
Kevin Cooney
USA
Best movies:
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Seven Pounds (2008)
David Graf
USA
Best movies:
Police Academy (1984)
The Whereabouts of Jenny (1991) (TV movie)
Four Friends (1981)
Stephen Ramsey
Best movies:
Minority Report (2002)
No Telling (1991)
Rules of Engagement (2000)
Mark Feuerstein
USA
Best movies:
What Women Want (2000)
Defiance (2008)
Ally McBeal (1997) (series)
Thom Barry
USA
Best movies:
Apollo 13 (1995)
Mr. Church (2016)
Independence Day (1996)
Scott Alan Smith
USA
Best movies:
Magnolia (1999)
The X-Files (1998)
Stargate (1994)
Benjamin Busch
Best movies:
Generation Kill (2008) (series)
Rules of Engagement (2000)