A Few Good Men

A Few Good Men is a 1992 American legal drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore, with Kevin Bacon, Kevin Pollak, Wolfgang Bodison, James Marshall, J. T. Walsh, and Kiefer Sutherland in supporting roles. It was adapted for the screen by Aaron Sorkin from his play of the same name but includes contributions by William Goldman. The film revolves around the courtmartial of two U.S. Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine and the tribulations of their lawyers as they prepare a case to defend their clients.

When Dawson and Downey are later arrested for Santiagos murder, naval investigator and lawyer Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway suspects they carried out a code red order, a violent extrajudicial punishment. Galloway asks to defend them, but instead, the case is given to Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, an inexperienced and unenthusiastic U.S. Navy lawyer. Initially, friction exists between Galloway, who resents Kaffees tendency to plea bargain, and Kaffee, who resents Galloways interference. Kaffee and the prosecutor, his friend Captain Jack Ross USMC, negotiate a bargain, but Dawson and Downey refuse to go along. They insist they were ordered by Kendrick to shave Santiagos head, minutes after Kendrick publicly ordered the platoon not to touch the wouldbe victim, and did not intend their victim to die. Kaffee is finally won over by Galloway and takes the case to court.In the course of the trial, the defense manages to establish the existence of code red orders at Guantanamo and that Dawson specifically had learned not to disobey any order, having been denied a promotion after helping out a fellow Marine who was under what could be seen as a code red. However, the defense also suffers setbacks when a crossexamination reveals Downey was not actually present when Dawson and he supposedly received the code red order. Markinson reveals to Kaffee that Jessup never intended to transfer Santiago off the base, but commits suicide rather than testify in court because he feels that he had failed to do the right thing by protecting a Marine under his command. ........

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