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The movie follows young Eugene Morris Jerome who is shipped from his Brooklyn home to basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi and introduced to adulthood through his experiences with a diverse group of young recruits, a Biloxi beauty, and a local prostitute.
Perhaps this movie isn't as wise or as profound as Simon wants it to be, but it is certainly a cut above sitcom complacency, and packed with wit and charm.
The movie Mike Nichols has directed from the play is pale, shallow, unconvincing and predictable, and tells us less about the characters than we already know.
With superb performances by Mr. Broderick and Christopher Walken, who plays Mr. Simon's nearly unhinged, very funny variation on the drill sergeant of movie myth, ''Biloxi Blues'' has a fully satisfying lif...[ END HERE ] of its own
May 20, 2003
TV Guide
An intelligent, tightly constructed film which manages to satirize both the military and the process of growing up.