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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Simon West
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Actors:
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Leslie Stefanson,
John Benjamin Hickey,
Rick Dial,
Peter Weireter,
John Travolta,
Madeleine Stowe,
James Cromwell,
Timothy Hutton,
Daniel von Bargen,
Clarence Williams III,
James Woods,
Mark Boone Junior,
John Beasley,
Boyd Kestner,
Brad Beyer
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Duration:
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112 min.
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Rating:
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(6/10)125.5
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Plot Summary:
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When the daughter of a luckily-known and spring-respected position commander is raped and murdered, the secret military investigator (Travolta) assigned to the case discovers a unspeakable labyrinth of murderous carnal prepossession and chicanery. Based on the fresh by Nelson DeMille.
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General's Daughter, The
The commander of an US military base is looking forward to his retirement when the body of his enlisted daughter is found, the victim of an S&M fantasy that has gone fatally AWOL. Army investigator Paul Brenner (Travolta) and his ex-girlfriend (Stowe) are assigned to the case with instructions not to leave any stone unturned, but to keep whatever they find there under wraps. Chief suspect is Colonel Moore (Woods), a master of the art of psychological warfare and one slug short of a full clip. The solution is signposted along the route, but director Simon West makes a diverting tour of familiar territory.
Psy Ops
Because film is touted as "entertainment" and, as television tells us, entertainment means forget your troubles and enter the world of light fantasy - sort of like eye candy for the brain - the attempts by some Hollywood writers and directors to inform and offer a snack of what's really going on in the military world are generally missed.
"The General's Daughter" is a powerful film that just scrapes the tip of the iceberg called military psychological operations. We get a glimpse of how brutal it is - first, to the general's daughter who has been so traumatized that she has become a perpetrator herself - a sadist who is given a license to practice her sadism on soldiers like the one we barely get a glimpse of as Travolta leaves her office. As she nake...
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