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    Biloxi Blues (1988)

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    Number two in Neil Simon’s autobiographical play trilogy reached the screen under the direction of Mike Nichols.

    This one is ‘opened up’ more than Brighton Beach Memoirs but its tale of cadet training days at Boot Camp in Mississippi still seems all mouth and little movement, with lots of dim mirth and rites-of-passage moralising.

    Matthew Broderick plays the Neil Simon alter ego, Eugene Jerome, negotiating ethnic tensions, japes in the dorm and the hurdles of a stagey script.

    But Christopher Walken steals the film as the flaky psycho drill Sergeant, Toomey (pictured at right).

    Eugene Morris Jerome
    Matthew Broderick
    Sgt. Toomey
    Christopher Walken
    Joseph Wykowski
    Matt Mulhern
    Arnold B. Epstein
    Corey Parker
    Roy Selridge
    Markus Flanagan
    Don Carney
    Casey Siemaszko
    James J. Hennesey
    Michael Dolan
    Daisy
    Penelope Ann Miller
    Rowena
    Park Overall
    Peek
    Alan Pottinger
    Pinelli
    Mark Evan Jacobs

    Director
    Mike Nichols

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