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Writers:
Neil Simon (play)
Neil Simon (screenplay)
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Release Date:
25 March 1988 (USA) more
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Plot:
A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Matthew Broderick ... Eugene Morris Jerome

Christopher Walken ... Sgt. Toomey

Matt Mulhern ... Joseph Wykowski

Corey Parker ... Arnold B. Epstein

Casey Siemaszko ... Don Carney
Michael Dolan ... James J. Hennesey

Penelope Ann Miller ... Daisy
Park Overall ... Rowena
Alan Pottinger ... Peek
Mark Evan Jacobs ... Pinelli
David Kienzle ... Corporal (as Dave Kienzle)

Matthew Kimbrough ... Spitting Cook
Kirby Mitchell ... Digger #1
Allen Turner ... Digger #2
Tom Kagy ... Digger #3
Jeff Bailey ... Mess Hall Corporal
Natalie Canerday ... Natalie Canterday
Bill Russell ... Rifle Instructor
A. Collin Roddey ... Pvt. Roddey
Christopher Ginnaven ... Cpl. Ginnaven
Morris Mead ... Cpl. Mead
David Whitman ... Tower Officer
Norman Rose ... Newsreel Announcer
Ben Hynum ... Pvt. Lindstrom
Andy Wigington ... Cpl. Wigington
Scott Sudbury ... Pvt. Sudbury
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Markus Flanagan ... Roy Selridge
Michael Haley ... Cpl. Haley (as Michael R. Haley)
Virginia Sandifur ... Additional Voice (voice)

David Schwimmer ... Soldier on train (uncredited)
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Directed by
Mike Nichols 
 
Writing credits
Neil Simon (play)

Neil Simon (screenplay)

Produced by
Joseph M. Caracciolo .... executive producer
Marykay Powell .... executive producer
Ray Stark .... producer
 
Original Music by
Georges Delerue 
 
Cinematography by
Bill Butler 
 
Film Editing by
Sam O'Steen 
 
Casting by
Juliet Taylor 
 
Production Design by
Paul Sylbert 
 
Costume Design by
Ann Roth 
 
Makeup Department
Jay Cannistraci .... makeup department head
 
Production Management
Joseph M. Caracciolo .... unit production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Michael Haley .... first assistant director
James W. Skotchdopole .... second assistant director
Glen Trotiner .... additional second assistant director
 
Art Department
Roland Brooks .... charge scenic artist
David G. McKnight .... swing
 
Sound Department
Stan Bochner .... supervising sound editor
Marko A. Costanzo .... foley artist
Lee Dichter .... sound re-recording mixer
George A. Lara .... foley mixer
Gary Parker .... boom operator
 
Stunts
Rick Le Fevour .... stunt coordinator
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Bill Coe .... assistant camera
Ralph Gerling .... camera operator
 
Casting Department
Sarah Tackett .... extras casting
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Gary Jones .... assistant costume designer
 
Editorial Department
Kris Cole .... first assistant editor
Bruce Pearson .... color timer
Richard Nord .... associate editor (uncredited)
 
Music Department
James Flatto .... assistant music editor
Thomas Hasselwander .... music supervisor
Patrick Mullins .... music editor
Roy B. Yokelson .... music recording engineer
 
Other crew
B.J. Bjorkman .... script supervisor
Joe Hughes .... assistant location manager
Matilde Valera .... assistant accountant
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues
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Runtime:
106 min | UK:102 min (DVD)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
The second chapter of Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical "Brighton Beach Trilogy", which followed "Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)" and is followed by "Broadway Bound (1992)". more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Toomey is drunk outside the barracks in the rain, his personal ribbons and his marksmanship badge disappear and reappear between shots. more
Quotes:
Joseph Wykowski: I've got three enemies now, Jerome. The Japs, the Germans, and you!
Eugene Morris Jerome: I wasn't in on that Pearl Harbor thing.
[Epstein, who has a problem with flatulence, selects the bunk next to Selridge]
Arnold Epstein: Is this bunk taken?
Selridge: Oh, no! I don't mind dyin', but I don't wanna get my nose blown off...
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Movie Connections:
Features Buck Privates (1941) more
Soundtrack:
Goodbye Dear, I'll Be Back in a Year more

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20 out of 23 people found the following review useful.
sublime experience, 5 June 2006
10/10
Author: glennsouthall from United Kingdom

OK, we all have our favourite poignant movies right?....you know the type - the ones that hold you in rapture - time and again, because it speaks to you on a very personal level and effortlessly touches some part of your emotions that you keep hidden from the world - evoking deeply sad or blissfully happy memories from our own passage through life. Biloxi Blues is that movie for me.

Which of us do not carry emotional scars from; Our first time away from home. Our first time interacting with a group of strangers in a mutual climate. Our first sexual encounter. Our fist kiss. Our first love. Our first brush with authority. Our first glimpse at death.

Biloxi Blues is a movie that embraces many of the "rites of passage" that we all face in life and deals with them using comedy as a foil to gently explore them, without diminishing their poignancy. Neil Simon is peerless in this. The casting is faultless. The acting is immaculate. The humor is intelligent.

If you haven't seen this movie, do so. You can thank me later.

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