Rules of Engagement

Year:

2000

Duration:

128 min

Genres:

Action | Drama | War

IMDB rate:

6.3

Director:

William Friedkin

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2000-04-07

Filming Locations: Greystone Park & Mansion - 905 Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $60,000,000

Opening Weekend: $15,011,181 (USA) (9 April 2000)

Gross: $61,322,858 (USA) (6 August 2000)

Cast

Actor

Character

Dani Englander

Tommy Lee Jones

Col. Hayes 'Hodge' Hodges

Samuel L. Jackson

Col. Terry L. Childers

Guy Pearce

Maj. Mark Biggs

Ben Kingsley

Ambassador Mourain

Bruce Greenwood

National Security Advisor Bill Sokal

Anne Archer

Mrs. Mourain

Blair Underwood

Capt. Lee

Philip Baker Hall

Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges

Dale Dye

Gen. Perry

Amidou

Dr. Ahmar

Mark Feuerstein

Tom Chandler

Richard McGonagle

Judge Col. E. Warner

Baoan Coleman

Col. Binh Le Cao

Nicky Katt

Hayes Hodges III

Ryan Hurst

Capt. Hustings

Gordon Clapp

Harris

Hayden Tank

Justin Mourain

Ahmed Abounouom

Jimi

William Gibson

Hodges' Radioman

Tuan Tran

Translator

John Speredakos

Lawyer

Scott Alan Smith

Another Lawyer

Jihane Kortobi

Little Girl

David Lewis Hays

NCO Bailiff

Peter Tran

Col. Cao's Radioman

Bonnie Johnson

Mary Hodges

Jason C. West

Childers' Radioman

Mohamed Attifi

Tariq

Zouheir Mohamed

Aziz

Chris Ufland

Ambassador Aide

Thom Barry

Gen. West, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

Kevin Cooney

Gen. Laurie

Helen Manning

Sarah Hodges

David Graf

ARG Commander

Conrad Bachmann

Secretary of Defense Wyatt

Aziz Assimi

Little Boy

Robert Pentz Jr.

Courtroom Spectator

Laird Macintosh

Radio Operator, Gen. Perry's Cadre

Baouyen C. Bruyere

Col. Cao's Granddaughter

Steven M. Gagnon

Juror #1

Richard Whiten

Juror #2 (as Richard F. Whiten)

Thomas Knickerbocker

Juror #3 (as Tom Knickerbocker)

Terry Bozeman

Juror #4

Mary Wickliffe

Juror #5

Jody Wood

Juror #6

Elayn J. Taylor

Juror #7 (as Elayn Taylor)

Todd Kimsey

Officer #1

Stephen Ramsey

Officer #3

G. Gordon Liddy

Talk Show Host (voice)

Mike Stokey

Gen. Perry's Cadre

Jack Galle

Gen. Perry's Cadre

John Barnett

Gen. Perry's Cadre

Mike Bedmiston

Gen. Perry's Cadre

Michael Gerald

Gen. Perry's Cadre (as Mike Gerald)

Freddie Joe Farnsworth

Gen. Perry's Cadre

Dennis Fitzgerald

Gen. Perry's Cadre

Jim Boensch

Gen. Perry's Cadre

Brian Maynard

Gen. Perry's Cadre

Joseph Aguilar

Naval Officer (uncredited)

Johnny Alonso

Spitting Protestor (uncredited)

Benjamin Busch

Marine (uncredited)

Lawrence Larsen

Officer #2 (uncredited)

Christopher Marquez

Marine Base Protestor (uncredited)

LauraLee O'Shell

Reporter (uncredited)

Nate Panning

Corpsman (uncredited)

Chuck Paris

Airport Traveler (uncredited)

Marc Kenneth Robinson

Marine Videographer (uncredited)

André B. Walker

Marine (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The scene of Sokal viewing and destroying the tape after he sees it proves gunfire was coming from the crowd, was imposed by test audiences according to William Friedkin. The film was supposed to leave ambiguous whether or not Childers did the right thing, depicting what happened through subjective viewpoints and never revealing the objective truth of what occurred.

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The USS Wake Island LHA-7 is fictional and not an actual US Navy ship. The ship seen in the movie is actually the USS Tarawa LHA-1.

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A replica of the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, NC, was built at the Vint Hill Farm Station, South Manassas, VA. Some 800 Marines were hired for the combat and other action scenes.

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Goofs

The Arabic language spoken by the officers in Col. Hodges' inquiry is the local Levant dialect spoken in Israel and Jordan, and not the Yemenite dialect.

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As Col. Childers gets out of his car to confront a man who spits on his uniform, many people in the crowd of reporters move positions between shots and a large boom microphone appears overhead.

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In the beginning southeast Asia scenes, the forest contains large old-growth trees with thick, heavy bark, south-facing moss, and large broken logs. This type of forest structure is indicative of old-growth northwestern United States forest and is not found in Vietnam, where tropical forest layers compete for available sunlight. In tropical forests, the trees have thin, whitish and tall canopies with hanging vines and even moss layering. Also of note are the ground palms which are too uniformly planted and the lack of thick dead ground mulch found in tropical forests.

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Quotes

Colonel Hayes Hodges: I'll make you a deal. If you can tell me right now what the life expectancy was for second lieutenant dropped into a hot LZ in Vietnam in 1968, I'll tell you everything I remember about Ca Lu.

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Colonel Terry L. Childers: Yes they had weapons! You think there's a script for fighting a war without pissing somebody off? Follow the rules and nobody gets hurt? Yes, innocent people probably died. Innocent people always die but I did not exceed my orders.

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Colonel Hayes Hodges: [final arguments of the defense]

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