Biloxi Blues
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Biloxi Blues

Year:
Duration:
106 min | UK:102 min (DVD)
Genres:
Comedy | Drama
IMDB rate:
6.6
Director:
Mike Nichols
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1988-03-25
Filming Locations: Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, USA
Earnings
Budget: $20,000,000
Gross: $43,184,798 (USA) Rentals $19,552,880 (USA)
Cast
Actor
Character
Matthew Broderick
Eugene Morris Jerome
Christopher Walken
Sgt. Toomey
Matt Mulhern
Joseph Wykowski
Corey Parker
Arnold B. Epstein
Markus Flanagan
Roy Selridge
Casey Siemaszko
Don Carney
Michael Dolan
James J. Hennesey
Penelope Ann Miller
Daisy
Park Overall
Rowena
Alan Pottinger
Peek
Mark Evan Jacobs
Pinelli
David Kienzle
Corporal (as Dave Kienzle)
Matthew Kimbrough
Spitting Cook
Allen Turner
Digger #2
Tom Kagy
Digger #3
Jeff Bailey
Mess Hall Corporal
Bill Russell
Rifle Instructor
Natalie Canerday
Natalie Canterday
A. Collin Roddey
Pvt. Roddey
Christopher Ginnaven
Cpl. Ginnaven
Morris Mead
Cpl. Mead
David Whitman
Tower Officer
Norman Rose
Newsreel Announcer
Ben Hynum
Pvt. Lindstrom
Andy Wigington
Cpl. Wigington
Scott Sudbury
Pvt. Sudbury
Michael Haley
Cpl. Haley (as Michael R. Haley)
Virginia Sandifur
Additional Voice (voice)
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Trivia
Though actor Matthew Broderick won a Tony Award for playing Eugene Morris Jerome on Broadway, he did not play the part in the cinema movie of Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), this film's precursor. Broderick would get to play him in this sequel Biloxi Blues (1988). Jonathan Silverman played Eugene Morris Jerome in the Broadway production of "Broadway Bound" and also in Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986). Corey Parker portrayed him in the 3rd part telemovie Broadway Bound (1992). On 9th July 1985, Silverman replaced Broderick in the Broadway run of "Brighton Beach Memoirs", his Broadway debut.
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David Schwimmer's movie debut. Uncredited, Schwimmer played a soldier on a train.
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The period of time that the American army boot camp went for was ten weeks.
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Goofs
When Toomey is drunk outside the barracks in the rain, his personal ribbons and his marksmanship badge disappear and reappear between shots.
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This movie starts out in July 1945, as established by Sgt. Toomey during the first meal after they arrive in Biloxi. Because of this, several events and statements are factually incorrect or out of sequence; 1. Sgt. Toomey says that they could be sent to the Pacific or Sicily, but Sicily had been liberated two years earlier. 2. The "Movietone News" at the end of the movie they are watching shows the headline "Allies Hurl Nazis Back In Italy", but the the Italian campaign had ended May 2, 1945. 3. Sgt. Toomey tells Epstein that he will be "the first man to reach Berlin", but the war in Europe ended on May 8, 1945 and Berlin had already been occupied. 4. As he's riding on the train at the end of the film and narrating, Jerome states that they were headed for the battle of the Pacific but suddenly they dropped "the bomb" on Hiroshima, and 6 days later the war was over. They would not have been finished with their 6 weeks of Basic Training when the fist atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 9th, 1945.
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When Sgt. Toomey first greets the men, he quietly calls for "attention". When the troops don't react to his liking, he repeats himself. Though you hear him shout "ten-hut!", he is clearly mouthing the word "attention" again.
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Quotes
Rowena: All right, now... come to mama.
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Sergeant Toomey: Epstein, Arnold B.
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Toomey: [Wykowski and Epstein have a near-altercation after lights out. Toomey confronts them] What the hell is going on here?
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Photos from cast
Kirby Mitchell
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