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17 Truthful Facts About A Few Good Men

By roger cormier | dec 29, 2015.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin first came to the public's attention after writing the legal drama A Few Good Men , first as a play, then as a film. Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore starred in the 1992 Rob Reiner-directed movie about two U.S. Marines who are court-martialed for the murder of a fellow Marine, purportedly under orders from their higher-ups. Here are some truths about the critically-acclaimed courtroom drama that you can definitely handle.

1. AARON SORKIN WROTE THE PLAY ON BAR NAPKINS WHILE BARTENDING.

Sorkin’s older sister, Deborah, had recently joined the Navy JAG Corps fresh from graduating from law school when she called him one Sunday morning. Deborah told Aaron about a case she was working on involving a hazing gone wrong at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, where the accused said they were ordered to do it by a superior, involving a “Code Red.” Sorkin then went to work as a bartender at Broadway's Palace Theatre. While patrons were taking in the first act of La Cage aux Folles , he began writing A Few Good Men on some cocktail napkins. He went home that night and typed up what he had written on the napkins on a Mac 512 K he shared with his roommates, and continued to do so until he was finished .

2. LINDA HAMILTON AND JODIE FOSTER AUDITIONED FOR THE ROLE OF LT. COMMANDER GALLOWAY.

A then-eight-months-pregnant Demi Moore ended up getting the part, and was paid $2 million for the role.

3. JASON ALEXANDER WAS SET TO PLAY LT. SAM WEINBERG.

But when Seinfeld was renewed by NBC for a second season, he was no longer available. Reiner then gave Kevin Pollak the part after he read with Cruise.

4. TOM CRUISE SAW THE BROADWAY PLAY BEFORE SIGNING ON TO PLAY LT. KAFFEE.

He also insisted on learning all of the “legalese” dialogue in the script.

5. LANCE CPL. HAROLD DAWSON WAS PLAYED BY ROB REINER’S PERSONAL ASSISTANT.

Wolfgang Bodison started in the mail room at Reiner’s production company, Castle Rock, before becoming a production assistant, then Reiner’s personal assistant on Misery . He was scouting locations for A Few Good Men when Reiner decided Bodison looked like a Marine and that he should act in the film . Bodison has gone on to act in other films, as well as write and direct.

6. JOSHUA MALINA WAS IN BOTH THE BROADWAY PLAY AND THE MOVIE.

Frequent Sorkin collaborator Joshua Malina played PFC Downey for the last six to eight months of the stage production. He played Tom, Colonel Jessup’s clerk, in the movie. It was his first feature film role.

7. DESCENDANTS OF HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS TOOK PART IN THE PRODUCTION.

Frank Capra III was first assistant director . Marlene Dietrich’s grandson, J. Michael Riva, was the production designer.

8. JACK NICHOLSON WAS PAID $5 MILLION FOR 10 DAYS OF WORK.

Nicholson, as Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, was in just three scenes in the entire movie. Technically he worked an extra morning for free when Reiner and crew didn’t get all of his footage shot in time.

9. NICHOLSON DID A LOT MORE WORK THAN HE HAD TO.

He recited the famous courtroom speech an estimated 40 to 50 times, at full intensity every time—even for all of the shots that were of Cruise, Moore, Pollak, Kevin Bacon, and the rest of the courtroom simply reacting to what he was saying. Nicholson said he was “quite spent” by the time he finished.

10. A LOT OF DEFERENCE WAS SHOWN TO NICHOLSON.

The three-time Oscar winner told Reiner he noticed that when he walked into the first rehearsal, the rest of the cast rushed to their seats. "Afterward I told him, 'Rob, it was so strange I felt like the (expletive) Lincoln Memorial,'" Nicholson told the Los Angeles Times . "I blushed actually."

11. KEVIN POLLAK’S MOTHER HIT ON JACK NICHOLSON.

Pollak wrote about the incident in his book , How I Slept My Way to the Middle , an d recalled the story during an appearance on Conan .

12. REINER THOUGHT ONE LINE OF DIALOGUE WAS MUCH FUNNIER.

After Galloway tells Kaffee and Weinberg she has the medical reports and Chinese food, she suggests they eat first. After a beat, Weinberg asks, “You got any Kung Pao chicken?” Reiner thought it should have gotten a laugh. He claimed it never did .

13. KIEFER SUTHERLAND WAS A BAD DRIVER.

Multiple takes were needed for a scene in which Kiefer Sutherland's Lt. Kendrick drives the legal team around the base, after he clipped a couple of Marines. He wasn’t used to driving a military Jeep.

14. SORKIN MADE A CAMEO.

Fittingly, he’s in a bar scene , as one lawyer talking to a woman about a case.

15. THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT GALLOWAY.

An unnamed executive gave Sorkin the note: "If Tom Cruise and Demi Moore aren't going to sleep with each other, why is Demi Moore a woman?" His response ? "I said the obvious answer: Women have purposes other than to sleep with Tom Cruise." He claimed the incident was his worst experience as a screenwriter.

Demi Moore said she really wanted the part in the first place because Galloway was a “genderless” role . Roger Ebert in his 2.5 star review wrote that a friend of his intuited that Galloway was originally written as a man. In Sorkin’s third draft of the screenplay , dated months before shooting, the movie ends with Kaffee asking Galloway out on a date. She responds by telling him to wear matching socks, like she did before the first day of the trial. That exchange did not make it into the movie.

16. THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REFUSED TO ENDORSE THE FILM.

This meant that the filmmakers couldn't utilize any military installations during filming. Most of A Few Good Men was shot on a Culver City soundstage.

17. FOUR LAWYERS HAVE CLAIMED KAFFEE WAS BASED ON THEM.

The men all played a role in Deborah Sorkin’s Guantanamo Bay case, where 10 Marines faced assault charges, each with his own lawyer. One advertised on his law firm’s website that his exploits became the basis for Kaffee, and it was great for his career. Through a spokesman, Sorkin told The New York Times that Kaffee wasn’t based on anybody .

Jessup was though, according to Jack Nicholson, who recalled two Marine generals who were on set as consultants . They both knew the actual Jessup and his story.

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A Few Good Men

1992, Drama, 2h 18m

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Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a military lawyer defending two U.S. Marines charged with killing a fellow Marine at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Although Kaffee is known for seeking plea bargains, a fellow lawyer, Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore), convinces him that the accused marines were most likely carrying out an order from a commanding officer. Kaffee takes a risk by calling Col. Nathan R. Jessep (Jack Nicholson) to the stand in an effort to uncover the conspiracy.

Genre: Drama

Original Language: English

Director: Rob Reiner

Producer: Rob Reiner , Andrew Scheinman , David Brown

Writer: Aaron Sorkin

Release Date (Theaters): Dec 11, 1992 wide

Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012

Box Office (Gross USA): $141.3M

Runtime: 2h 18m

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Columbia Tristar

Production Co: Castle Rock Entertainment, Columbia Pictures Corporation, New Line Cinema

Sound Mix: Stereo, Dolby SR, Surround

Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Lt. Daniel Kaffee

Jack Nicholson

Col. Nathan R. Jessup

Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway

Kevin Bacon

Capt. Jack Ross

Kiefer Sutherland

Lt. Jonathan Kendrick

Kevin Pollak

Lt. Sam Weinberg

James Marshall

Pfc. Louden Downey

Lt. Col. Matthew Markinson

Christopher Guest

Cmdr. Doctor Stone

J.A. Preston

Col. Judge Julius Randolph

Matt Craven

Lt. Dave Spradling

Wolfgang Bodison

LCpl. Harold W. Dawson

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cpl. Carl Hammaker

Aaron Sorkin

Screenwriter

William S. Gilmore

Executive Producer

Rachel Pfeffer

Andrew Scheinman

David Brown

Earl Forest

Original Music

William G. Harvey

Jerry Leiber

Marc Shaiman

Mike Stoller

Robert Richardson

Cinematographer

Robert Leighton

Film Editing

Steven Nevius

Janet Hirshenson

Jane Jenkins

J. Michael Riva

Production Design

David F. Klassen

Art Director

Michael Taylor

Set Decoration

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"A Few Good Men" is an amazing drama film of 1992. "A Few Good Men" has amazing acting from "Tom Cruise" and "Jack Nicholson". "A Few Good Men" has a great plot to it, the drama was handled very well, it wasn't too over the top. One thing I did not like was the first 20 minutes of the film; it felt a bit long and dragged on. "Jack Nicholson's" final courtroom speech is a classic, and has been impersonated several times. The music in "A Few Good Men" is great; it fits in perfectly with the scenes. I highly recommend you watch "A Few Good Men" as it is an amazing drama film. I give "A Few Good Men" an 8.5/10.

As seen in "The Newsroom" and "The Social Network," Aaron Sorkin obviously writes some great dialogue and speeches, and Kaffee and Jessup's courtroom confrontation is indeed full of vitriol and grand idealistic views on patriotism, security, and truth. However, what bumps me about this movie and the rest of Sorkin's work is that it's too pat. A callow, legacy, navy lawyer has to defend two Marines accused of hazing a private so extremely that they kill him. Along the way, we tackle issues of whether honor means following a code of ethics or critically thinking for oneself. Will the good guys win? What does it mean to be a good guy? These are important, heady questions drummed up by Sorkin, but I think he spent more time writing slick lawyer-speak instead of developing a key part of the story: who is Santiago and why should we care about him, the circumstances in which he was killed, and the fate of his killers? Why did he even join the Marines to begin with? Where was he trying to get transferred to? Why did he break the chain of command? Why would he offer secrets for personal favors? Why was he, in short, such a bad Marine? Even if he had health conditions, he should've at least been able to keep his barracks orderly and be punctual. His death seemed so clearly an accident that I wondered why all this hullabaloo. I kept thinking there had to be more to Santiago, not just his death.

"You can't handle the truth!" A Few Good Men is a powerful and compelling courtroom drama from director Rob Reiner. The story follows a young JAG officer who gets more than be bargains for when he takes on the case of two Marines accused of murder, and discovers that the truth is more disturbing that he originally believed. The cast is quite impressive, and includes Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, and Jack Nicholson; who all delivers excellent performances. The writing is also exceptionally good, and adds a lot of intrigue and intensity to the trial. Well-crafted and inspired, A Few Good Men delivers a thrilling drama.

Upon close examination, A Few Good Men isn't quite as profound as it would have you believe, but that doesn't stop it from being a riveting courtroom drama bolstered by strong performances and a quick-witted script.

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Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore star in Rob Reiner's unanimously acclaimed drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one's conscience. Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator (Moore) in a politically explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor, including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior (Nicholson). Superbly directed with a trio of powerhouse performances and an outstanding supporting cast including Kevin Pollak, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon.

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In this dramatic courtroom thriller, Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), a Navy lawyer who has never seen the inside of the courtroom, defends two stubborn Marines (Wolfgang Bodison and James Marshall) who have been accused of murdering a colleague. He (Cruise) is known as being lazy and had arranged for a plea bargain. Downey's (Marshall) Aunt Ginny appoints Cmdr. Galloway (Demi Moore) to represent him. Also on the legal staff is Lt. Sam Weinberg (Kevin Pollak). The team rounds up many facts and Kaffee is discovering that he is really cut out for trial work. The defense is originally based upon the fact that PFC Santiago, the victim, was given a "CODE RED". Santiago was basically a screw-up. At Gitmo, screw-ups aren't tolerated. Especially by Col. Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson). In Cuba, Jessup and two senior officers (J.T. Walsh and Kiefer Sutherland) try to give all the help they can, but Kaffee knows something's fishy. In the conclusion of the film, the fireworks are set off by a confrontation between Jessup and Kaffee.

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From stage to screen, rotten tomatoes® score.

Surface level, I can see why this intrigued me. I can see why it was good in terms of building the tension and trying to at least arouse some aspects of suspense. But does that a good movie make? I'm not sure.

Aaron Sorkin is the puppet master of snarky word vessels.

It's directed with taut efficiency by Rob Reiner.

Especially notable for its understanding of something — the conflict between the “elites” of blue America and the more traditional institutions of the military, police, and the like (30th anniversary)

The Cruise-Nicholson courtroom showdown that immediately lit up our American cinematic archive of great lines, with Nicholson's "You can't handle the truth!!"-still reverberates all these years later.

Suspenseful, powerful, poignant, unforgettable, and sharply directed.

A bit stilted and an unlikely alignment of parts, "A Few Good Men" maintains a taut, compelling hold from start to finish.

A star packed cast is actually pretty effective in this court drama presenting an awesome villain. Fantastic script. [Full review in Spanish].

As speechy and preachy a courtroom drama as you'll ever find, detailing the secret manoeuvring that shadows a naval court-martial.

There are more than a few excellent men in the cast, and a fine woman, too. But Rob Reiner's A Few Good Men roars with excitement only when Jack Nicholson seizes the drama between his sneering, snarling teeth.

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Genre : Drama, Thriller
Release Date : December 11, 1992
Languages : English
Captions : English
Audio Format : 5.1

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Story about an Navy lawyer's struggle to uncover the truth about a court martial.

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Award Nominations

Best editing, best picture, best supporting actor.

Miscellaneous Notes

Rob Reiner was nominated for the Directors Guild of America's 1992 Outstanding Directorial Achievement Award.

Rob Reiner, David Brown and Andrew Scheinman were nominated for the Golden Laurel Award (1992) by the Producers Guild of America.

Released in United States Winter December 11, 1992

Released in United States on Video June 30, 1993

Released in United States December 1992

The Manhattan Project is David Brown's production company.

The US Defense Department refused to endorse the project, thus barring shooting from taking place on any military installations.

Completed shooting January 30, 1992.

Began shooting October 21, 1991.

Play was performed at the Eisenhower Arts, Washington DC, Fall 1989.

Released in United States December 1992 (Prior to its overseas opening, film was previewed on Friday, December 11th, 1992 (the same day it opened in the USA) in 53 countries, including Great Britain, Germany, France and Japan, making it the first-ever worldwide premiere.)

Jack Nicholson was named best supporting actor by the National Board of Review (1992).

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Rob Reiner's "A Few Good Men" is one of those movies that tells you what it's going to do, does it, and then tells you what it did.

It doesn't think the audience is very bright. There is a scene that is absolutely wrong. In it, a lawyer played by Tom Cruise previews his courtroom strategy to his friends. The strategy then works as planned - which means that an element of surprise is missing from the most important moment in the movie, and the key scene by Jack Nicholson is undermined - robbed of suspense, and made inevitable.

That's a shame, because in many ways this is a good film, with the potential to be even better than that. The flaws are mostly at the screenplay level; the film doesn't make us work, doesn't allow us to figure out things for ourselves, is afraid we'll miss things if they're not spelled out.

The story is based on fact, as transmuted into a Broadway play by Aaron Sorkin . A Marine at the Guantanamo Naval Air Station, in Cuba, dies after a hazing incident. Two young Marines are charged with the death, but a nosy Navy legal ace in Washington ( Demi Moore ) suspects there's more to the story, and wants to investigate. She's prodded by her own superior to assign a lazy Navy lawyer (Cruise) to the case, perhaps because he has an unblemished record of settling out of court, and can be counted on to handle the case without generating public embarrassment.

After Moore and Cruise meet with the accused young Marines, she realizes they have a sticky case on their hands, because the unwritten Marine code means that the two won't talk, even to save themselves. One of them, a black kid played by Wolfgang Bodison , is so fiercely proud of the Corps that he would rather go to prison for years. The other, a rather dim and easily impressed white farm boy, goes along.

Cruise is all for settling the case out of court and getting back to his beloved softball games. Moore won't let him. A third friend, played by Kevin Pollack , joins in strategy sessions as they gather evidence that eventually leads to a disturbing conclusion: Although hazing is officially against the law and Marine policy, the Guantanamo commander, a crusty old dog played by Jack Nicholson, may have tacitly approved the attack on the dead Marine.

The movie's setup scenes have good energy to them. Cruise is well-cast and effective here as an untried lieutenant, the son of a great man, who has to be taught to take his job seriously and live up to his heritage. Demi Moore is attractive and determined as his superior, who tries to teach him.

Given decades of Hollywood convention, we might reasonably expect romance to blossom between them, providing a few gratuitous love scenes before the courtroom finale, but no: They're strictly business - so much so that it seems a little odd that these two good-looking, unmarried young people don't feel any mutual attraction. I have a friend, indeed, who intuits that the Demi Moore character was originally conceived of as a man, and got changed into a woman for Broadway and Hollywood box office reasons, without ever quite being rewritten into a woman.

Everything leads up, in any event, to the courtroom scene which concludes the movie, with Kevin Bacon playing the prosecutor assigned to convict the two young Marines. We have already met the Jack Nicholson character in Cuba, where he is particularly good at sexist verbal brutality, which he aims especially at Moore. We know he will turn up again, and he does, in a denouement that would have had greater power if the movie didn't telegraph it.

What happens is that the movie brings us to the brink of a courtroom breakthrough, and then we get the scene that undermines everything, as Cruise explains to his friends what he hopes to do, how he hopes to do it, and how he thinks it will work. When Nicholson's big courtroom scene develops, we realize with sinking heart that it is following the movie's scenario. That robs us of pleasure two ways: (1) We are not allowed the pleasure of discovering Cruise's strategy for ourselves, and (2) Nicholson's behavior seems scripted and inevitable, and is robbed of shock value.

The movie is reduced then, to a lesser pleasure, that of watching good actors do good work. Nicholson is always fun to watch, as he barks and snarls and improvises new obscenities. Cruise is an effective contrast, as the immature young officer who discovers himself. Bodison, the stubborn defendant, gives the most interesting performance in the movie, because we can see the battle going on inside and the movie allows it to happen almost as a separate scenario. But the movie doesn't quite make it, because it never convinces us that the drama is happening while we watch it; it's like the defense team sneaked an advance look at the script.

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A Few Good Men (1992)

Rated R For Language

130 minutes

Demi Moore as Lt. Cdr. Joanne Galloway

Tom Cruise as Lt. J.G. Daniel Kaffee

Kevin Bacon as Capt. Jack Ross

Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan R. Jessep

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When Tom Cruise Was Great: 'A Few Good Men' at 20

A Few Good Men marked an exorcism for Cruise, where he shrewdly sent up the character-construct of a young man masking a father-related soul-sickness with some unrepentant recklessness, whether in the air, on the track, behind the bar or with a pool cue that weighed so heavily on him in the 80s.

There’s much talk of honor in A Few Good Men — what it is, who has it, who doesn’t, how to get it, where it might land on a list of personal assets, and perhaps the debatable manner in which it can be defined vis-à-vis the United States Armed Forces. But at its core, the picture is the light-fare courtroom drama that follows the suspicious death of an unpopular Marine at Guantanamo Bay. It’s best remembered, of course, for a scene where Jack Nicholson’s multiplex-approved version of Walter Kurtz tells a pushy young lawyer played by Tom Cruise that he’s ill-equipped to accept the realities of the moral and ethical dilemmas facing military personnel in the fog of not-exactly-war. The picture, celebrating the 20th anniversary of its American release this month, is worth looking back on not just because of a jaunty screenplay by a young playwright named Aaron Sorkin, or for the aforementioned scene — which isn’t even Nicholson’s best performance in the film, mind you. No, the staying-power of A Few Good Men hangs on the performance of Cruise as a cocky Navy JAG, the role that marks the sweetest-spot of his long career where Movie Star and Actor were in their sharpest alignment, and where Cruise mercifully left his cinematic 80’s behind and began a period where, starting with A Few Good Men and ending in Magnolia, he did his most significant work.

Cruise’s dramatic acting in Taps in 1981 , followed two years later by a funny and cleverly understated star-turn in Risky Business — Roger Ebert gushed, “He occupies the movie the way that Dustin Hoffman occupied The Graduate ” — pointed to the rise of a promising thespian. But by the end of the 80’s after the gum-smacking, high-fiving, lady-killing Maverick of Top Gun , Cruise had drifted into repetitive caricature, playing roles with pretty much the same emotional DNA: a young man masking a father-related soul-sickness with some unrepentant recklessness, whether in the air, on the track, behind the bar or with a pool cue. It was tiresome, to be sure, and a sojourn into historical drama ( Born on the Fourth of July ) or period adventure ( Far and Away ) could not pull him out of the crevasse he had lowered himself into. But A Few Good Men marked an exorcism for Cruise, where he shrewdly sent up the character-construct that weighed so heavily on him. Sure, Cruise’s Daniel Kaffee is living in the shadow of another larger-than-life father, but this time Cruise opts for the flip side of the coin. Instead of adrenalizing his emotional baggage, Kaffee is slothful and indifferent, his cockiness manifesting in apathy rather than self-destructive thrill seeking. Kaffee is the anti-Maverick, and Cruise nestles into him so comfortably that it’s hard to not hear the palpable exhale he gives as he undercuts his then-worn out, cinematic identity.

Counter-punching against prime Nicholson, who does complicated and fascinating work, Cruise executes Ali-caliber rope-a-dope. He lazes and baits, he stumbles and errs, and most importantly, he draws off of Kaffee’s underperforming reputation. He lulls Jessup into the tedium of cross-examination, pulls him into the muck, then slowly begins to jab and parry. He whispers and bellows, prods and teases, and earns every bit of the unbridled contempt Nicholson can infuse into Jessup. Of course, by the time Jessup recognizes how off-balance he is, it’s too late for him. Interestingly, Cruise does to the audience exactly what he does to Nicholson, tempering, breeding underestimation, then finally, delivering a knockout.

It’s great fun, and if one thinks it’s a one-off, just an actor getting a swim in a superior actor’s wake, then look no further than the preliminary rounds, where Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon, doing some of their best work, take it on the chin as well. Cruise is acting not with but against great acting, and only the most cynical viewer can fail to be taken in. The gem of the film, though, is early in the Second Act, where Cruise announces that he’s playing to win, in a scene at Guantanamo Bay. It’s thrilling, and Jessup threatens, sexually harasses, bullies and brags, all with a smile on his face over what looks like a lovely lunch on his home turf. It’s here that Kaffee/Cruise knows to cash in on his youth and looks, a currency that only the young and the handsome have access to, and he uses it against Jessup as a deadly weapon. Nicholson is a hypersexual actor, using it even when it seems a role needn’t call for it. And he uses it here. Cruise, though, uses his right back, and the rage that it evokes in Nicholson/Jessup surpasses anything that lies ahead in a Washington courtroom.

As for the picture, director Rob Reiner tries too hard to appeal to a broad audience. Sorkin’s play hit themes of anti-Semitism and misogyny much more heavily, and by pulling back here Reiner leaves Kevin Pollack and Demi Moore holding the bag. Even the cursive, too-folksy ‘The End’ feels strained, as if too many executives told Reiner he had just made the next To Kill A Mockingbird. He didn’t.

A friend who recently worked with Cruise had this to say about him: “He will out everything you. He will out work you, outthink you, out stunt you, and out nice you. If you’re an athletic, 25-year-old production assistant he will out sprint you in front of the entire crew. He will out generous you, he will out prepare you, and he’ll know your job and how to do it better than you will.” Knowing what we do about Cruise, none of this is particularly surprising, but many of these attributes are forces of will, a man pushing himself to unknown limits. And one can no more will himself to be a truthful, insightful actor than can one force themselves to be a great painter. Prolific? Sure. But great? The theme of honor weaves its way through the lot of characters in A Few Good Men, but Sorkin and Reiner give Cruise the biggest gorilla to wrestle: A man who dishonors himself by the very way he chooses to live his life. It’s heavy lifting and it’s hard not to evoke Cruise’s very public personal life. For any artist, sheer grit and hard work is a given but there must be some emotional truth to draw upon, to access. Perhaps Cruise will not allow himself access to his true emotionality, as maybe he himself is unclear as to what it really is. But like a novelty Chinese finger trap, the harder he works, the more stunts he pulls off, and the more jets he flies, the further he may be getting from his emotional truth, whatever that may be. And this, of course, is the greatest dishonor of all.

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Scene Review: A Few Good Men - "You can't handle the truth!"

Today we are going to talk about one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history, where two acting legends go at each other in a court room, and perform some of their best work. Who are these two actors? None other than Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. If you haven’t guessed the film yet, where have you been for the last 25 years?

A Few Good Men is a brilliant film, and one of the best law films around in my opinion. It’s full of some of the best actors around, such as Cruise, Nicholson as mentioned above, as well as being treated to the likes of Kevin Bacon, Demi Moore, just to name few of a long list.

This movie is about a lawyer, Daniel Kaffee, played by Tom Cruise, who has been appointed the task to defend 2 marines who are being accused of murder, but defend themselves by confessing they were just following orders. This for me automatically makes you intrigued in the film, as it is clear the defendants are in a catch 22, disobey orders or commit murder, both crimes.

This then leads us to the scene itself that we are talking about. As the film starts to reach its climax, we find ourself in a court room with Tom Cruise’s character, Kaffee, calling up Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, played by Jack Nicholson, to the stands.

What I love about this scene is how Kaffee plays on Jessup’s ego as a confident Colonel, in complete control over his marines. Asking him questions like “Any chance Lt. Kendrick ignored that order” knowing full well the Colonel prides himself of having complete power over his marines. The Colonel is so confident that people follow his orders, he digs himself into a hole by playing on Kaffee’s lack of front line service. He even solidifies this by asking Kaffee if they were clear on what point he was getting at, to put your life in another man’s hands whilst serving in the army, to which Kaffee replies “Crystal”. This is one of my favourite parts of the scene as Kaffee is quoting what Jessup had said earlier when Kaffee asked him if he was sure his marines followed his orders when he told them to leave the victim alone.

Kaffee keeps on poking the Colonel, until he then asks him directly what were the exact orders given to the marines, to which we then see Jessup start to backtrack, telling the lawyer that sometime soldiers can take matters into their own hands. “No, sir, You made it clear just a moment ago that your men never take matters into their own hands. Your men follow orders or people die. So Santiago shouldn't have been in any danger at all, should he have, Colonel?” states Kaffee - this is a brilliant bit of foreshadowing by the lawyer by making sure the Colonel tells everyone how certain he is about marines following his orders at the start, before then asking the direct question, that gives Jessup no way out. Stuck in a hole he was unknowingly digging. This then confirmed by Jessup with him replying with a simple insult calling Kaffee “a snotty nose, little bastard” leading us to the moment everyone quotes just as much as the I Am You Father scene in Star Wars...

“Colonel Jessup, did you order the Code Red?!” asks Kaffee, “I'll answer the question. You want answers?” responds Jessup, “I think I'm entitled!” Kaffee demands. As the tension builds, Jessup asks “You want answers?!” with Kaffee then yelling “I want the truth!” he is then hit in the face with a thunderous reply - “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!”.

Just writing that description makes my hairs stand on end.

Jessup continues to then talk about honour and defending his country not matter the cost, so that people like Kaffee can sleep well at night, that every decision he makes saves lives, even if sometimes people may not like what decisions are made. Kaffee ignores his attempts of excusing what he has done and asks him again if he ordered the Code Red, which then Jessup finally gives in an admits that he did give the order.

This scene is a landmark in cinema history, one no one will forget. Tom Cruise may not have won any Oscars in his career but this moment confirms he is one of the best. There is no glitz or glam, just two men talking, yet its intensity is higher than many action films, which in turn makes it a complete work of movie genius.

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21 Things You Never Knew About 'A Few Good Men'

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the release of " A Few Good Men ."

Landing in theaters on December 13, 1992, the military courtroom drama became director Rob Reiner 's biggest hit, put future Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin on the map as a screenwriter, gave Tom Cruise one of his most memorable and best roles, and gifted Jack Nicholson with the most unforgettable line of his career.

Still, as often as you've watched Cruise and Demi Moore face off in court against Nicholson, there's a lot you may not know about "A Few Good Men," including the real-life story behind it, the script's journey from cocktail napkins to the screen, or the time Kevin Pollak 's mom hit on Nicholson while he was trying to play his courtroom scene. 1. The story is based on a real-life 1986 incident at Guantanamo Bay , one that is very much like the "code red" hazing depicted in the film. As in the movie, the victim was a Marine named Willie who had snitched about a fence-line shooting into Cuban territory. There, his fellow Marines, acting on orders, gagged him until his lungs filled with fluid. Unlike in the film, Willie survived the code red, thanks to treatment at six different hospitals.

2. Sorkin, then an aspiring playwright, learned of the incident from his sister Deborah , then a recent law school grad, who served in the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps, on the team defending the accused Marines. Her story became the basis for his first play. 3. Sorkin wrote much of "A Few Good Men" on cocktail napkins while serving as a bartender at Broadway's Palace Theater, scribbling lines while patrons sat through the first act of "La Cage Aux Folles." He and his roommates pooled their resources to buy an early Macintosh desktop with 512K of memory, where he'd type up his napkin work and revise it.

4. Eventually, he had a play, which his agent sold to producer David Brown , who bought the film rights even before the show was mounted on Broadway, with Tom Hulce in the lead. The drama opened in 1989 and ran for more than a year. 5. Reiner (above) was drawn to the story because he identified with protagonist Lt. Daniel Kaffee, a Navy lawyer trying to live up to the example set by his legal-giant father. Reiner had spent the first two decades of his career toiling in the shadow of his comedy-legend dad, sitcom star as a serious filmmaker striking out on his own.

6. Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson may have been obvious choices to play the two main adversaries, but other roles were harder to cast. Linda Hamilton and Jodie Foster were both up for the role of Kaffee's colleague, Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway, before Demi Moore won the part. Moore, who was eight months pregnant when she auditioned, wanted the role because it was " genderless " and even agreed to play Galloway for just $2 million, well below her fee at the time. 7. For fellow lawyer Lt. Sam Weinberg, the filmmakers first thought of Seinfeld," was renewed for a second season, Alexander became unavailable, so the role went to comedian and impressionist Pollak.

8. Reiner had a certain look in mind for an actor to play the honor-bound lead Marine defendant, Lance Cpl. Harold Dawson. He realized that the man who looked like what he wanted was right under his nose , in the person of Wolfgang Bodison , a former Castle Rock mail boy who had become Reiner's personal assistant and a Castle Rock location scout. He'd never acted before, but Reiner auditioned him and cast him in his film debut alongside the likes of Cruise, Moore, and Nicholson. 9. Sorkin said he enjoyed working for Reiner, even though the director ordered him to make countless, rigorous revisions of his screenplay. One major revision: unlike in the play, where a doctored logbook is the smoking gun that gives Kaffee the break he needs, Reiner insisted that Cruise's Kaffee win the case on courtroom skills alone.

10. Some of the revisions were rumored to have been written by William Goldman , the screenwriter behind Reiner's " The Princess Bride " and "Misery." Sorkin reportedly liked some of the changes so much that he incorporated them into later editions of the play. 11. Sorkin hated, however, the revision requests he got from the studio. One asked why Galloway had to be a woman if she was never going to sleep with Kaffee. Sorkin's reply: " Women have purposes other than to sleep with Tom Cruise ." Sorkin did write one draft, however, that ended with Kaffee asking Galloway out on a date after the trial ends, but overall, he cited his dealings with Columbia on "A Few Good Men" as his worst experience as a screenwriter.

12. Much of the movie consists of indoor scenes shot on a Columbia soundstage in Hollywood, but the Washington, D.C. outdoor scenes were filmed on location . The building that plays the JAG Corps headquarters was actually a former psychiatric hospital. Years after the filming, it became the HQ for the Department of Homeland Security. 13. After "24," it's easy to think there's nothing Kiefer Sutherland can't do, but back in 1992, he still had trouble driving a Jeep. The scene where his Lt. Jonathan Kendrick escorts the Navy lawyers around the Guantanamo base had to be shot several times because Sutherland reportedly kept clipping the Marines playing extras.

14. The Guantanamo Bay barracks scenes were filmed on an Air Force base near Los Angeles. 15. Supporting player Nicholson received $5 million for just 10 days of shooting as Col. Nathan Jessup. Still, he worked hard for his money. He had to deliver his now-famous courtroom speech, at full intensity, as many as 50 times , even when Reiner was just using his performance off-camera to generate reaction shots from the other actors.

16. Pollak was unnerved during that sequence because his mom was on the set, sitting off-camera behind Nicholson and hitting on him. (You can watch Pollak's hilarious recounting of this anecdote, complete with the comic's dead-on Nicholson impression, here .) 17. Frequent Sorkin actor Josh Malina , who plays Jessup's clerk, Tom, is the only actor in the film who was also in the Broadway production. "A Few Good Men" marked his movie debut.

18. Sorkin himself has a cameo, as a lawyer bragging in a bar. 19. "A Few Good Men" cost at least $33 million to make; some sources put the cost as high as $41 million. At least half the budget went toward paying the salaries of the A-list cast and director , before even a foot of film was shot. (Cruise earned a reported $12.5 million. Reiner took home a reported $4 million. Even Sutherland, in a fairly small supporting part, landed a reported $1 million.) The movie earned back $141 million in North America and another $102 million overseas. It remains the biggest career hit for both Reiner and Sorkin.

20. The Academy nominated "A Few Good Men" for four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Nicholson), Best Editing, and Best Sound Mixing. Somehow -- Cruise was not nominated. Which is six different flavors of wrong. 21. The West Wing," played the Cruise role in a London stage production of "A Few Good Men" in 2005.

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I starred alongside Tom Cruise & Jack Nicholson in a Few Good Men & was surprised by what happened behind the scenes

Katy Forrester
James Desborough
Published : 23:58 ET, Nov 27 2022
Updated : 0:00 ET, Nov 28 2022

A STAR of A Few Good Men - seen as a masterclass in acting with screen legends Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise - has lifted the lid on behind the scenes as the film celebrates 30 years.

Established actor Kevin Pollak, who appeared in Rob Reiner's legal film back in 1992, says when the cameras weren't rolling it was a laugh-a-minute with the Hollywood icons.

The movie A Few Good Men earned four Oscar nods, including Best Picture

The movie, which made a staggering $243.2million at the Box Office, saw Cruise deliver his best-ever performance as rookie Navy attorney Daniel Kaffee who defends Marines accused of murder .

Nicholson played his unforgiving senior officer Colonel Jessup, while Demi Moore proved she could stand toe-to-toe with the two movie superstars as fellow lawyer JoAnne Galloway.

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And then there was Kevin Pollak, who took on the role of Lt. Sam Weinberg and told The U.S. Sun he has unforgettable memories of being on set.

He said Nicholson , 85, regularly "busted his balls" because his mom was flirting with him, even telling the panic-ridden young actor: "Kev... get your mom off my a**."

Kevin recalled: "My mom arrived and within eight seconds she casually strolls onto the set and starts chatting up Jack Nicholson ... chatting him up! I was too mortified to even speak.

"A little later, we're shooting a scene, and I'm sitting across from Jack, and looking at him, and all I can see is my crazy pants-mother over his shoulder, having the time of her life!

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"She'd forgotten about me long ago, now that she's six inches away from Jack Nicholson. So my mom is freaking me the f**k out.

"She's in my eye-line and she was chatting him up so comfortably, but I had no idea what she was saying because I can't hear because I'm 40 ft away.

"Unfortunately, Jack sees how much I'm squirming and quietly freaking out about all this, and seeing me that uncomfortable was like a party for Jack.

"So in between takes, Jack got up off the stand and walked over to the table where we were all sitting and he says: 'Hey Kev, how's it going? I'm wondering if you could do me a favor? I'm hoping you might be able to get your mom off my a**? You think you might be able to handle that?"

Nicholson hilariously added: "I wouldn't mind so much, but she's hitting on me. What the hell am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to take your mom back to my trailer? Is that what you want?"

Kevin, 65, laughed: "Luckily, I knew he was just playing with me and busting my balls.

"It was unbelievable but very funny. I laughed."

Kevin admits that after that early encounter, thanks to his mom, Jack's sarcastic comments broke the ice between them.

BIG PAY DAY

"Jack was getting half a million dollars a day, and I would tease him about it actually because I had heard he was getting five million for ten days.

"So the joke I said to him was, 'Jack, I'm just curious. I don't know the exact amount that you're making, but I know it's a lot. So I've got to ask, do you hit the snooze alarm when it goes off? Or do you race into the shower because you can't wait to start such an overpaid day?’ And Jack just laughed."

The Shining star also pulled a comedy stunt on Top Gun actor Cruise, according to Kevin.

"Jack can be silly and goofy. One of the most memorable moments was when Jack was on the stand and he's saying to Tom, 'You want answers?' And Tom is saying, 'I want the truth!'

"Well, when the camera is on Tom, Jack screws up his face and waggles his tongue. He was totally f***king with him and Tom stayed in character for the whole take. And as 'Cut!' was yelled, Tom punched Jack in the shoulder and everybody laughed. It was unbelievable.

"Everyone was f***ing off every day, all day."

Kevin says Tom, 60, made him feel at ease from the first moment they met in his trailer, and often enjoyed jokes on set in between takes.

"I remember being in the make-up trailer and telling somebody that it was my eighth film and Tom overheard and said, 'This is your eighth already? Man, I've only done six!' And I said, 'Tom, you’ve starred in six films, you're a movie star. I've acted in eight, as a character actor.

SET HIJINKS

"It just felt ridiculous to me. Just to have met those people would have been enough, seriously. Within the first nine seconds of me being there, the giant movie star that is Tom Cruise treated me as his equal, just like that, instantly.

"And so the stand-up comedian in me found myself giving s**t to Tom about whatever I wanted because we became equals and friends within two hours."

One ongoing gag fired off at Tom by Kevin was over a larger pen that the multi-time Oscar nominee used to make notes on his script.

He recalled: "I found myself saying, 'Hey Tom, they don't make a bigger pen? You know what, I'll bet they do. Come on, let's go find one.'

"Tom laughed the first eleven times I made fun of the pen, but eventually, he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, funny - try writing with the pen.’ So I take the pen and oh Jesus, that pen was like an angel wing floating on a cloud. It had its own kind of suspension system. But I loved that pen."

A few weeks later Tom gave Kevin the pen gift-wrapped - and it prompted more comedy soon after.

"Later I used a different pen, and Tom says, 'Kev, where's the pen?' And I say, 'Tom, I can't use the pen! The pen goes on a mantle in my house with a pen light hitting it just right. When people come to the house Tom, I'll point to the pen and I’ll tell them the story about the pen and it’ll be the greatest f***ing pen story they’ll ever hear! But no Tommy, I can’t, I can't use the pen, because if I use the pen I might lose the pen and that can never f***ing happen.'

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"Tom laughed. A week later Tom's assistant handed me another wrapped gift and says, 'Tom wants you to use the other pen.' So now, in my home on the mantle are two pens in their boxes."

The camaraderie on set with the men was also noticed by their one female co-star Demi, with Kevin describing the actress as "so lovely and sweet."

"She really wanted to look after us and would bring in special treats and cakes for the whole crew," he said.

"She's so lovely and wonderful, and we had a scene where I'm supposed to turn on Demi and yell at her and be really angry, but all I could see was this sweet, sweet wonderful face of hers and I couldn't get it right."

Kevin, who has now starred in more than 80 movies, says while watching his co-stars was fascinating, his own character work was sometimes dull.

"So the courtroom stuff was incredibly boring for me - I’m basically sitting there feeling like the highest paid extra."

Kevin claims that he still pinches himself today for landing the role as Tom's co-counsel in the stellar project, written by Aaron Sorkin, and co-starring Kevin Bacon , Kiefer Sutherland , and Cuba Gooding Junior .

A Few Good Men was not only a Box Office smash but a critical success, earning four Oscar nods, including Best Picture.

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Kevin laughed: "I had no formal training as an actor and had never been to an acting class. I started out as a stand-up comedian and never thought I was going to be the best stand-up comedian in any way shape, or form, but I did want to use it to get into acting, I just never thought it would happen on such a big level.

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"After that, I never auditioned again.

"A Few Good Men was a juggernaut, and still is to this day. It's on some network every week, it's absurd."

Cruise gave a stellar performance in the 1992 movie which was a Box Office smash

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7 best Jack Nicholson movies, ranked

For about 35 years, Jack Nicholson had a strong claim for being the best actor in Hollywood. After his breakthrough in 1969’s Easy Rider , it was clear that Nicholson would become a star. With a contagious smile, signature laugh, and irresistible charm, Nicholson had the looks and the talent that made him a Hollywood leading man. Yet, Nicholson also loved to steal the show as a supporting actor, as you’ll see in the rankings below.

7. Batman (1989)

6. easy rider (1969), 5. terms of endearment (1983), 4. the shining (1980), 3. chinatown (1974), 2. a few good men (1992).

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Nicholson’s résumé speaks for itself. With 12 Oscar nominations, he is the most nominated male actor in Academy Awards history. Nicholson won three times, “ one for every decade ,” as he jokingly once said. It’s hard to believe that Nicholson has not acted since 2010’s How Do You Know . Yet, his legacy remains unmatched.

To honor one of the greatest of all time, we did the impossible and ranked Nicholson’s seven best movies.

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Out of all the entries on the list, I’d bet a lot of money that The Batman is the one that leads to the most angry comments in my inbox. What’s not up for debate is Nicholson’s profound impact on the superhero genre, something I’d imagine he never considered when he took the role. In Tim Burton’s Batman , Nicholson plays Jack Napier, a mobster who transforms into the Joker after falling into a vat of chemicals.

While Keaton plays a gloomy, stoic Batman, Nicholson’s Joker is a charismatic, over-the-top psychopath. Before Heath Ledger’s turn in The Dark Knight , Nicholson’s Joker was the gold standard for comic book villains. Quentin Tarantino famously said Marvel actors aren’t movie stars , and for the most part, he’s right. Nicholson is the opposite. His performance defines the character, not vice versa.

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This one is for old D.H. Lawrence . Every acting legend has a role that displays their potential for the first time. It’s the transformative performance that people can point to as the moment that changed their career, like Brad Pitt in Thelma & Louise and Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver . For Nicholson, that role came in Easy Rider , the road drama starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as two bikers on a cross-country trip to find spiritual enlightenment. It’s one of the most influential films of the counterculture movement, and Nicholson’s George Hanson is one of Easy Rider’s lasting legacies.

Hanson is a slick, alcoholic lawyer who joins Wyatt (Fonda) and Billy (Hopper) on their trip to New Orleans. From the image of him on the back of a motorcycle wearing a football helmet to his marijuana-induced rant about aliens, the role of Hanson iwa a “star is born” moment for Nicholson. Though only in the film for a short time, Nicholson’s memorable appearance resulted in his first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor.

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Terms of Endearment will leave you in a puddle of tears. James L. Brooks’ family drama stars Shirley MacLaine as Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine), a widow who constantly butts heads with her rebellious daughter, Emma ( The Ranch’s Debra Winger ), after she marries a college professor and moves away. The heart of Terms of Endearment is the relationship between Aurora and Emma, which tears at your emotions as the film progresses.

Mixed in with the sadness are moments of hilarity and laughter thanks to Jack Nicholson’s Garrett Breedlove, the retired astronaut who lives next door to Aurora. Thanks to his abilirty to be sleazily charming, Garrett’s presence provides a lovely rom-com detour from the heaviness of the family drama. Nicholson’s memorable performance resulted in his second Oscar victory, his first for Supporting Actor.

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If the most famous line from an iconic film is ad-libbed, you are a special actor. That’s the case for “ Heeeere’s Johnny ,” which Nicholson improvised as an homage to Ed McMahon’s introduction for Johnny Carson. Nicholson’s Jack Torrance utters the famous phrase after swinging an ax like a wild man as he tries to kill his family, and his performance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is the actor’s scariest role in his filmography.

Nicholson plays a writer and recovering alcoholic who slowly goes insane while serving as winter caretaker for the Overlook Hotel. It’s a showy, physical performance from Nicholson, whose violent outbursts and terrifying monologues still send chills down one’s spine. Even though Stephen King (who wrote the book it’s based on) hated the film, Nicholson’s committed performance is undeniable.

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If Easy Rider was Nicholson’s introduction to stardom, Chinatown cemented him as one of the greats. Roman Polanski’s neo-noir features Nicholson as Jake Gittes, a private investigator in the 1930s Los Angeles hired by Evelyn Mulwray to investigate her husband’s suspicious activities. Jake eventually learns that an imposter pretending to be Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) hired him, adding further intrigue to the mystery.

He eventually learns that Evelyn’s father (John Huston) may be a suspect in a deeper, more dangerous conspiracy. Robert Towne’s Oscar-winning script is considered one of the best screenplays ever. However, this movie only works because of Nicholson, who elevates the already great material with wisdom, ignorance, and vulnerability.

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If you can handle the truth, listen to this: Rob Reiner , who directed the courtroom movie A Few Good Men , revealed what it was like directing the final courtroom scene when Nicholson’s Colonel Jessup takes the stand. Reiner decided to film the reaction shots of the other characters in the room before turning the camera around on Nicholson. Despite being off-camera, Reiner said Nicholson gave “exactly the same performance that you see that’s on camera.”

When Reiner joked that Nicholson should “save a little” for the “real” take, Nicholson responded by saying how much he loves to act, which is why he was making an effort for every take. This mindset and dedication to the craft is what makes Nicholson a genius. Nicholson versus Cruise in the courtroom is an acting master class. Jessup is an evil, corrupt man with no redeeming qualities. Yet, I want to watch his scenes the most, which is a testament to Nicholson’s talent. A Few Good Men remains Nicholson’s best supporting performance of his illustrious career.

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1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Everything you want in a Nicholson performance is present in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest . Nicholson stars as Randle P. McMurphy, a convict who pretends to be insane so he can go to a mental institution instead of prison. Randle is a rambunctious troublemaker who injects life into the facility, which goes against the authoritarian atmosphere implemented by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), one of the best movie villains of all time .

Nicholson thrives as the antihero leading a rebellion against the establishment. Randle is not a good guy, yet Nicholson’s smile and charm are so infectious that you look the other way when he steals a few bucks from his fellow patients. It’s a triumphant portrayal of a tragic hero. Nicholson, who won the Oscar for Best Actor, has never been better.

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Then, there's Keanu Reeves (John Wick), who might be the most unlikely action star of all time, even more than Willis. At first glance, Reeves is a nice, handsome everyman you wouldn't expect to take down a criminal organization or save the world. His stoic, calming presence combined with his hardworking persona transforms Reeves into a believable hero. But make no mistake about it, Reeves is an action star and one of the best in Hollywood since 1990.

Considered to be one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood, Will Smith has grown leaps and bounds from his time on ‘90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, following his start as a popular young rapper.

He’s been in a number of blockbuster films since those early days and is among the top 20 actors based on cumulative domestic box office movies in which he’s had a leading role, with close to $3 billion grossed from 30 films. He’ll reprise his role for the third Bad Boys film, Bad Boys For Life in January 2020. Here’s our ranked list of Big Willie's best movies to date. 13. Hitch (2005)

There's no better time to be a movie fan than near the beginning of the month on Amazon Prime Video. Almost everything new on Prime Video drops on the 1st of the month, and April is no exception. This month, Prime Video has added classic films like Chinatown, To Catch a Thief, and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, as well as more modern films, including Memoirs Of a Geisha, The Station Agent, and Fighting with My Family. But if you have to watch only one Amazon Prime Video movie in April, it has to be Chaplin.

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Every Movie Jack Nicholson Was Oscar-Nominated For, Ranked

"Forget it, Jack. It's Oscartown."

Few actors have been in as many classic movies as Jack Nicholson , whose humble beginnings in the 1960s (mostly supporting roles in B-movies) gradually raised his profile, with an Oscar nomination by that decade’s end. During the 1970s, he reached a level of stardom that made him one of the most celebrated actors of his generation, and his reputation is still strong to this date, even with the actor retiring in 2010.

He's one of the most-nominated actors in Oscar history , and with three wins to his name, he joins a prestigious club of actors with only six members (while only one person, Katherine Hepburn , has won four Oscars for acting). Those 12 movies that earned Jack Nicholson an Oscar nomination for action are ranked below, not necessarily by how good Nicholson is in them (though that plays a role), but by how good they are as movies overall, starting with the decent and ending with the great.

12 'Ironweed' (1983)

Director: héctor babenco.

Ironweed is probably the most obscure movie for which Jack Nicholson received an acting nomination at the Oscars, and there’s an argument to be made it’s also the worst film in this category. It sounds like it could be something on paper, especially because Nicholson stars alongside fellow three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep , and indeed, both were nominated for the performances they gave .

But the film itself is a little boring, sadly, revolving around two people having a tumultuous relationship following the Great Depression; Nicholson’s character being defined by his alcoholism, and Streep’s being terminally ill. Given the story and when the movie’s set, Ironweed isn’t supposed to be a fun time, but it would’ve been nice if the drama had just been more compelling. The two leads do their best with what they’re given, but it’s probably only worth seeking out for the most dedicated fans of either.

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11 'As Good as It Gets' (1997)

Director: james l. brooks.

Proving successful critically, commercially, and awards-wise upon release, As Good as It Gets not only got Jack Nicholson his penultimate Oscar nomination, but also his third and final win. In the film, he plays an intensely unlikable individual who strikes up a relationship with a younger woman and slowly – very slowly, considering the nearly 2.5-hour runtime – learns to be a bit less of a jerk to those around him.

Just like how the depression of Ironweed was intentional, the meanness of As Good as It Gets is a part of the film, but nowadays, it feels like it pushes things a little too far while also giving the main character too simple and unearned a redemption arc . It might’ve worked for the 1990s, and people clearly liked Nicholson’s performance and the film as a whole, but it’s aged kind of lousily, to be perfectly honest.

As Good As It Gets

10 'prizzi's honor' (1985), director: john huston.

Things start to turn around a little here, because even though Prizzi’s Honor isn’t amazing, it is surprisingly good, and it’s possible to even call it one of Jack Nicholson’s more underrated movies . He plays a hitman who works for a very wealthy crime family, though beyond being about crime, it’s also a romantic comedy, given much of it revolves around Nicholson’s character falling for a woman who’s also an assassin.

Beyond Nicholson, two other people got Oscar nominations for their roles in Prizzi’s Honor : William Hickey and Anjelica Huston , with the latter also winning. As far as darkly comedic crime movies from the 1980s go, it generally works fairly well. It can’t be called a criminally overlooked film, but it’s definitely a little overlooked , seeming to have an impact upon release (it got eight Oscar nominations) without necessarily being remembered as a classic. It's not, but it's also far from bad.

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9 'A Few Good Men' (1992)

Director: rob reiner.

A highly-regarded courtroom drama , A Few Good Men stands out within the genre for not being about a typical criminal or civil case, but instead centering on military law. Namely, the case at the center of A Few Good Men involves a pair of U.S. marines being on trial for allegedly killing another, with the case unfolding certain complex secrets that some individuals would rather be kept suppressed.

Those well-versed with movies that are largely set in courtrooms might not find a ton here to be surprised by, even with the plot of the film involving a court-martial, but it’s still generally well-acted, presented, and written. Jack Nicholson has something of a villainous role here and makes the most of his somewhat infrequent screen time , succeeding – as he often does – at stealing the scenes he does show up in.

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8 'Reds' (1981)

Director: warren beatty.

Reds is an absolutely huge movie with a remarkable cast, and stands as one of the longest-ever movies to get a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards . Directed by and starring Warren Beatty in what’s clearly a passion project, it tells a story based on true events about U.S. journalist John Reed being inspired by what he witnessed of the October Revolution in Russia during the 1910s, and set about trying to introduce socialist ideas in his home country.

It spans many years, and on top of being a historical drama, also works in an element of romance, which involves Nicholson’s character, playwright Eugene O'Neill , being involved with activist Louise Bryant ( Diane Keaton ), whom Reed is also in love with. Reds bites off a good deal and manages to chew the majority of it, and it ended up being nominated for a staggering 12 Oscars (ultimately winning three).

7 'Terms of Endearment' (1983)

Terms of Endearment isn’t the only Best Picture winner Jack Nicholson appeared in, given he also starred in the winner for 2006, the Martin Scorsese crime/thriller, The Departed . However, he wasn’t Oscar-nominated for his (very entertaining) performance there, so that’s the only time that movie will get mentioned here. Also, another notable omission: Nicholson wasn’t nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Shining , even though that’s typically regarded as one of his best films.

Anyway, back to Terms of Endearment . It was a well-awarded dramedy that mostly revolved around the relationship between a mother and her daughter, and the way their dynamic was further challenged by the latter getting diagnosed with cancer. Nicholson won an Oscar here, his second overall and his only one for a supporting performance, playing a retired astronaut/neighbor of the mother character, who was played by Shirley MacLaine (who also won an Oscar for her role). It’s a good movie. Not great, nor the best of the Best Picture winners, but it works well as a quintessential cinematic tearjerker .

Terms of Endearment

6 'easy rider' (1969), director: dennis hopper.

While it’s certainly a product of its time, there is something inherently compelling about Easy Rider that endures some 50+ years later . And, at worst, most will be able to appreciate what it was for its time, and how radical it would’ve seemed at the time of its release: a moment in history that itself was – at least in hindsight – rather tumultuous and tied with a certain rebellious spirit .

That all might sound a little lofty and vague, but that’s because it’s hard to talk about Easy Rider in the traditional sense, given there’s little by way of narrative, by design. It’s a road trip sort of movie about two bikers going on a long – and potentially doomed – journey, with everything getting progressively darker and more psychedelic as it goes along. It’s a film that’s earned its reputation as a decade-defining cult classic , and is also a pivotal one within Jack Nicholson’s body of work, seeing as it earned him his very first Oscar nomination.

5 'Five Easy Pieces' (1970)

Director: bob rafelson.

A straightforward, downbeat, and character-focused drama film , Five Easy Pieces came just one year on from Easy Rider . While that film saw Nicholson play a very memorable – yet still relatively brief – supporting role, Five Easy Pieces was the movie that well and truly established his capacity to not only carry a movie, but carry it in such a way that would be considered worthy of awards attention.

It’s a movie all about a man struggling with the dead-end nature of his life, reckoning with not feeling able to live up to certain expectations and struggling with issues in both his relationship and within his family. Five Easy Pieces is the sort of thing that would sink or swim based, in large part, on how good the central performance is , and Jack Nicholson undoubtedly delivers, with this being the second part of a one-two-punch – alongside the also “ Easy ” Easy Rider – that solidified his star power.

4 'About Schmidt' (2002)

Director: alexander payne.

Barring some sort of very unexpected comeback, About Schmidt is very likely to remain the final film for which Jack Nicholson received an Oscar nomination. It certainly wasn’t his last good movie, but it was a fitting final one when we’re just talking about those that got him Academy Award attention, because he carries the film and is pivotal in helping both its humorous and melancholic scenes work effectively.

About Schmidt is about Schmidt (first name Warren), a retired man embarking on a reasonably long journey to attend the wedding of a daughter he’s become largely estranged from. It’s perhaps one of Jack Nicholson’s very best movies , and is certainly worth watching for anyone who enjoyed some of Alexander Payne’s better-known movies, as About Schmidt doesn’t seem to be quite as well-remembered as some other films of his , like Sideways and Nebraska , even though it scratches a similar itch.

About Schmidt

3 'the last detail' (1973), director: hal ashby.

The Oscars seem to really love the kinds of Jack Nicholson movies where plot takes a backseat to characters, because The Last Detail is pretty simple from a narrative perspective. It’s about a young and troubled sailor being escorted from one location to another by two older men, both of whom feel sorry for the young man and decide to show him a good time while they’re all on the trip together.

The Last Detail is quiet but surprisingly moving, and balances its sadder moments with some solid comedy , as well as a surprising amount of profanity for a film of its age. It’s up there as one of the best dramedies of the 1970s , and it’s a shame Nicholson didn’t collaborate with director Hal Ashby again (truth be told, it’s unfortunate Ashby didn’t make more movies in general).

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2 'Chinatown' (1974)

Director: roman polanski.

Speaking of great 1970s movies, here’s Chinatown . This is perhaps the definitive neo-noir movie, but more broadly, you could also describe it as one of the greatest crime/mystery films ever made . It takes place during the 1930s, and follows a private detective named Jake Gittes as he takes on a case that initially just seems to involve infidelity, but turns out to be part of a much larger – and more deadly – conspiracy.

Things unfold slowly but steadily in Chinatown , and it all culminates with one of the bleakest and most legendary movie endings of all time. It’s a film where everything it could be praised for, it has been praised for, and Jack Nicholson’s Oscar-nominated lead performance is just one of the many great things the film’s got going for it . It’s a shame it had stiff competition in the form of 1974’s The Godfather: Part II , which was the biggest Oscar success for that year, as it won six trophies (including Best Picture).

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1 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975)

Director: miloš forman.

1973 to 1975 saw Jack Nicholson have a remarkable run of stellar and amazingly well-acted movies, with The Last Detail being followed by Chinatown , and then Chinatown being followed by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest . Within this trio of movies, the best was saved for last , as not only is One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest arguably the greatest of the three, but it was also the movie that got Nicholson his first Oscar win.

It's a perfectly written movie , with Nicholson portraying a charismatic and flawed hero of sorts, as well as Louise Fletcher playing an all-time great movie villain , and herself winning an Oscar. Telling a story about finding hope within a bleak environment, and rebelling against tyranny (in a way), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest continues to endure as a great film, and will likely never lose its emotional power.

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10 Best Stanley Kubrick Villains, Ranked

Some of the most outstanding cinematic achievements in history were thanks to the legendary Stanley Kubrick . Revered for his staunch determination and incredible attention to detail, he's often cited as the most iconic filmmaker of the 20th century. Kubrick has a reputation for being a notorious perfectionist and challenging to work with, striving to bring out the best in his performers to create some extraordinary films the world has ever seen.

As the director of thirteen incredible films across five decades, Kubrick's works are nothing short of masterpieces. Most incredibly, he had a talent for crafting some truly remarkable and dastardly villains. Today, many villains who appeared in Kubrick's films are widely considered among cinema's most iconic and terrifying . They are sinister, memorable, and striking; some are even pure evil. From a conniving spouse to a murderous supercomputer, these are the best villains in Stanley Kubrick's movies .

Barry Lyndon (Ryan O'Neal)

'barry lyndon' (1975).

In this visually stunning period drama masterpiece , Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon wows audiences with its stellar performances, authentic costume designs, and incredible production values. Set in 18th-century Europe, it follows the rise and eventual downfall of Redmond Barry ( Ryan O'Neal ), from his time as a soldier during the seven-year war to eventually marrying his way into becoming a wealthy English noble.

From humble beginnings to forcing his way into wealth and power, viewers watch as Barry slowly becomes a power-hungry, broken shell of his former self. Once he obtains his status, it leaves him empty as he becomes cold, drunken, and highly depraved. Barry is especially cruel to his stepson, Lord Bullingdon (Leon Vitali), and his spoiling of his other son ultimately leads to the poor child's accidental death. While not as monstrous or evil as some other villains in Kubrick's films, Redmond Barry is the antagonist of his own story and a great showcase for the late Ryan O'Neal.

Barry Lyndon

Release Date December 18, 1975

Director Stanley Kubrick

Cast Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Ryan O'Neal

Runtime 185 minutes

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Sherry Peatty (Marie Windsor)

'the killing' (1956).

After 1955's Killer's Kiss , Kubrick returned to the noir crime genre a year later with his highly influential heist thriller The Killing . Dripping with tension and suspense, it follows the different perspectives of five criminals as they plot to steal $2 million from a high-stakes horse race. While it's a story full of amoral characters, including thieves, crooks, and con men, none come close to the villainy of the conniving Sherry Peatty ( Marie Windsor ).

The bitter wife of heist conspirator George Peatty ( Elisha Cook Jr. ), Sherry is a cold-hearted, manipulative woman wanting a better life than her mundane existence and is willing to swindle her husband and his associates' fortunes right from under them. However, as her desire for most of the money gets the better of her, Sherry's actions ultimately lead to the heists' downfall and the loss of her and many lives. Windsor nails this unique villainous role, playing a delightfully evil femme fatale who is as intelligent as she is greedy.

Red Cloak (Leon Vitali)

'eyes wide shut' (1999).

In his final film before his unfortunate passing at 70 in 1999, Stanley Kubrick delivered Eyes Wide Shut , a uniquely dark erotic mystery thriller starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman . It follows a Manhattan doctor who finds himself infiltrating a strange and mysterious underworld of high society to fulfill his deepest desires.

Kurbrick's long-time collaborator and personal assistant, Leon Vitali , plays the enigmatic and sinister overarching antagonist of the film, Red Cloak. This bizarre but captivating cult-like figure is as intriguing as he is mysterious . As head of his shadowing sex-fueled organization, he is determined to keep his antics a secret from the outside world, even resorting to intimidation and likely murders to rule behind the scenes. He's easily one of Kubrick's most bizarre but compelling antagonists , one that surely leaves a lasting impression on viewers long after he exits the screen.

Eyes Wide Shut

Release Date July 16, 1999

Cast Leslie Lowe, Jackie Sawiris, Madison Eginton, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Tom Cruise

Runtime 159

Genres Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Documentary

Writers Frederic Raphael, Arthur Schnitzler, Stanley Kubrick

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Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden)

'dr. strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb' (1964).

The hilarious political dark comedy Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb satires the growing tensions during the Cold War and the fears of nuclear devastation. Starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott , it follows several high-ranking government officials in a race against time to stop the rogue and unhinged US Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper ( Sterling Hayden ) from launching an unauthorized nuclear attack against the Soviet Union.

Jack D. Ripper is utterly devoid of reason, driven solely by his deep insecurities and paranoia . He genuinely thinks his enemies are all around him, even going as far as to believe a bizarre conspiracy that the Russians tampering with US drinking water is responsible for recent sexual impotence. Ultimately, his reckless actions when carrying out his unprovoked attack led to World War III. Bizarre and highly irrational, Ripper is easily one of the more unique and hilarious antagonists Kubrick ever brought to the screen .

Dr. Strangelove

Release Date January 29, 1964

Cast Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Tracy Reed, Slim Pickens, George C. Scott, Peter Sellers

Runtime 95 minutes

Genres Comedy, War

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Gen. Paul Mireau (George Macready)

'paths of glory' (1957).

Paths of Glory shows an unflinching and haunting depiction of trench warfare during the bloody First World War . Starring the iconic Kirk Douglas , it follows his determined character, Colonel Dax, as he bravely tries, but unfortunately fails, to defend three battle-weary French soldiers wrongfully accused of desertion. While many incompetent and ruthless commanders cause all sorts of villainy throughout the story, the cowardly and conniving General Paul Mireau stands out as the worst of them all.

Played expertly by prolific American actor George Macready , Mireau is a truly despicable, remorseless, and self-centered officer willing to sacrifice countless lives under his command for personal glory. He's an accurate but sad representation of the true-to-life field commanders who were uncaring for the safety and well-being of the souls they sent to their deaths during one of history's most brutal conflicts.

Paths of Glory (1957)

Release Date December 25, 1957

Cast Christiane Kubrick, Wayne Morris, George Macready, Ralph Meeker, Joe Turkel, Richard Anderson, Adolphe Menjou, Kirk Douglas

Rating Approved

Runtime 88 Minutes

Genres Drama, War

Writers Humphrey Cobb, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson, Stanley Kubrick

Gny. Sgt. Hartman (R. Lee Ermey)

'full metal jacket' (1987).

Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket ranks as one of the greatest Vietnam War films ever made . Starring Stranger Things actor Matthew Modine , the film uses his character, Private Joker, to explore the loss of humanity and the internal struggles of US soldiers, from their brutal boot camp training in the States to the vicious street fighting in Hue City, Vietnam. The late and great R. Lee Ermey plays the ruthless drill instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, the first act's main antagonist.

Employing cruel and sadistic methods, Hartman is determined in his mission to weed out any recruits unfit to fight in his beloved Marine Corps. He's stern, remorseless, and not afraid to use harsh tactics , like beatings and embarrassing punishments, to mold his men into perfect killing machines. He may have just been doing his job to prepare these boys for battle, but his unrelenting mistreatment ultimately leads to his demise at the hands of his most frequent victim, Private Pyle ( Vincent D'Onofrio ). Being an actual former drill instructor, Ermey gives believability and intrigue to this unique and truly iconic villain , easily one of the most memorable characters in all of Kubrick's films.

Full Metal Jacket

Release Date July 10, 1987

Cast Kevyn Major Howard, Dorian Harewood, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey

Runtime 116 minutes

Writers Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick

Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier)

'spartacus' (1960).

The great Sir Laurence Olivier delivered some truly magnificent performances throughout his sixty-year-long film career. From his Oscar-winning role in Hamlet to playing the sinister dentist Dr. Christian Szell in John Schlesinger 's Marathon Man , he undoubtedly garnered an illustrious filmography. Arguably, one of his best villain roles was the power-hungry Roman Senator Marcus Licinius Crassus in Kubrick's 1960 historical adventure epic Spartacus .

Co-starring Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas as his arch nemesis, Spartacus sees Olivier at the top of his game , playing a despicable Roman warlord who serves as the perfect foil to the film's titular hero. Crassus is a greedy, bloodthirsty, and selfish monster whose rivalry with Spartacus is the driving force throughout the film. There's something spectacular about a villain who's so easy to hate, and Olivier flexes his renowned Thespian muscles to craft an appalling version of wickedness that remains impressive today.

Release Date October 6, 1960

Director Anthony Mann, Stanley Kubrick

Cast John Ireland, Nina Foch, John Gavin, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Kirk Douglas

Rating PG-13

Runtime 197 Minutes

Genres Biography, Drama, Adventure

Writers Howard Fast, Dalton Trumbo, Peter Ustinov

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Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell)

'a clockwork orange' (1971).

The remarkably talented Malcolm McDowell gives a career-defining performance as the iconic movie villain Alex DeLarge in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange . Set in a dystopian futuristic Great Britain, the story follows this devilishly intelligent and remorseless young criminal as he and his gang commit all sorts of atrocities around the city for their amusement.

Alex DeLarge is among the most unsettling villains ever to grace the screen . He relishes his crimes, showing pure enjoyment in committing these horrible acts without care or worry about others, including the well-being of his own gang. While the second half of A Clockwork Orange sees him going through brutal treatments to "cure" his violent temper, the film's wonderfully ambiguous ending never clearly shows whether Alex will truly be good or is waiting to become a monster again. He's an eerie and complex villain who leaves viewers with unpleasant feelings whenever he appears on screen.

A Clockwork Orange

Release Date December 19, 1971

Cast Adrienne Corri, Warren Clarke, Michael Bates, John Clive, Patrick Magee, Malcolm McDowell

Runtime 136

Genres Drama, Sci-Fi, Crime

Writers Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson)

'the shining' (1980).

The Shining is arguably Stanley Kurbick's most wildly talked about film. Released in 1980 and loosely based on horror author Stephen King 's famous novel of the same name, it follows writer Jack Torrance ( Jack Nicholson ), who goes on a murderous rampage against his wife and son after breaking down and becoming corrupted by the sinister spirits of The Overlook Hotel, an ominous and isolated mountain resort.

Jack Nicholson easily gives one of the most compelling and terrifying performances of his career as Jack Torrance . Here, audiences follow the tragic downfall of this flawed yet otherwise ordinary family man, watching his mental state slowly being chipped away at every moment. Brilliantly, Kubrick's interpretation of the film never clearly shows if the supernatural phenomena plaguing the Overlook Hotel are real. It leaves the audience debating whether Jack is genuinely under the influence of evil ghosts or if months of isolation slowly turned him into the monster he secretly always was. Terrifying yet fascinating, Jack Torrance is a villain still debated today and certainly one of Kubrick's best .

The Shining

Release Date May 23, 1980

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Runtime 146

Genres Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Writers Diane Johnson, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King

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Fans of his movies know no other villain in Stanley Kubrick's filmography tops the sinister and menacing rogue A.I. HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey . Appearing in one of the most iconic and influential science fiction films of all time , this highly intelligent and advanced supercomputer has become the stuff of nightmares since its debut in 1968.

For most people who haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey , they at least know about HAL 9000 and his terrifying presence. Voiced with eerie politeness by the late Douglas Rain , HAL 9000 is as iconic as movie villains get . Throughout the movie, he's shown to be an unflinching machine willing to murder his entire human crew aboard the starship Discovery to ensure the mission's success. HAL's icy clinical approach has become synonymous with the dangers of unchecked technology, showcasing the detached, mechanical attitude and lack of empathy that can only come from the worst sci-fi nightmares.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Release Date April 2, 1968

Cast Margaret Tyzack, Leonard Rossiter, Daniel Richter, William Sylvester, Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea

Runtime 141

Genres Mystery, Sci-Fi, Adventure

Writers Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick

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1. AARON SORKIN WROTE THE PLAY ON BAR NAPKINS WHILE BARTENDING.

2. LINDA HAMILTON AND JODIE FOSTER AUDITIONED FOR THE ROLE OF LT. COMMANDER GALLOWAY.

3. JASON ALEXANDER WAS SET TO PLAY LT. SAM WEINBERG.

4. TOM CRUISE SAW THE BROADWAY PLAY BEFORE SIGNING ON TO PLAY LT. KAFFEE.

5. LANCE CPL. HAROLD DAWSON WAS PLAYED BY ROB REINER’S PERSONAL ASSISTANT.

6. JOSHUA MALINA WAS IN BOTH THE BROADWAY PLAY AND THE MOVIE.

7. DESCENDANTS OF HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS TOOK PART IN THE PRODUCTION.

8. JACK NICHOLSON WAS PAID $5 MILLION FOR 10 DAYS OF WORK.

9. NICHOLSON DID A LOT MORE WORK THAN HE HAD TO.

10. A LOT OF DEFERENCE WAS SHOWN TO NICHOLSON.

11. KEVIN POLLAK’S MOTHER HIT ON JACK NICHOLSON.

12. REINER THOUGHT ONE LINE OF DIALOGUE WAS MUCH FUNNIER.

13. KIEFER SUTHERLAND WAS A BAD DRIVER.

14. SORKIN MADE A CAMEO.

15. THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT GALLOWAY.

16. THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REFUSED TO ENDORSE THE FILM.

17. FOUR LAWYERS HAVE CLAIMED KAFFEE WAS BASED ON THEM.

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