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Cadence (1990) -- Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade.

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Overview

User Rating:
6.3/10   2,503 votes
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Director:

Martin Sheen

Writers (WGA):

Gordon Weaver (novel)
Dennis Shryack (screenplay)

Contact:

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Release Date:

18 January 1991 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama more

Tagline:

Sometimes you've got to stand out to fit in.

Plot:

Charlie Sheen plays a rebellious inmate in an Army stockade. | full synopsis

Awards:

1 nomination more

User Comments:

Camaraderie and Class more (26 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Charlie Sheen ... Pfc. Franklin Fairchild Bean

Martin Sheen ... MSgt. Otis V. McKinney

Laurence Fishburne ... Roosevelt Stokes (as Larry Fishburne)
Blu Mankuma ... Eugene 'Spoonman' Bryce

Michael Beach ... Edward James Webb
Harry Stewart ... Harry 'Sweetbread' Crane

John Toles-Bey ... Andrew Lawrence

James Marshall ... Cpl. Harold Lamar
Ramon Estevez ... Cpl. Gerald Gessner
Jay Brazeau ... Mr. Vito
Samantha Langevin ... Mrs. Vito
Ken Douglas ... Kramer
Weston McMillan ... DeLuc

David Michael O'Neill ... Sager
Allan Lysell ... Sheridan (Prosecutor)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Count a Lonely Cadence
Stockade (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

In the latter half of the film Martin Sheen's character McKinney says to Charlie Sheen's Bean that he has a son "about your age." Martin Sheen is, of course, Charlie Sheen's father in real life. more

Goofs:

Factual errors: The flags in the courtroom are reversed; the flag of the United States should be positioned to its own right of any other flag or standard, even on an American military installation on foreign soil. Also U.S. Army flags or standards, even the National Flag, should have spearhead pole finials instead of eagle pole finials. Eagles are reserved for civilian flags and the President of the United States. more

Quotes:

[McKinney wants to be friends with Bean]
Pfc. Franklin Fairchild Bean: I can't. I can't be your friend.
MSgt. Otis V. McKinney: Why? Am I not as good as your color buddies?
Pfc. Franklin Fairchild Bean: You're a bully! And I hate EVERYTHING you stand for!
MSgt. Otis V. McKinney: GERALD!
[Gessner comes in]
MSgt. Otis V. McKinney: [to Gerald] Escort this prisoner back to the compound before I throw him out the window. Dismissed!
[Gessner and Bean leave]
MSgt. Otis V. McKinney: That son of a BITCH!
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Soundtrack:

End of My Journey more


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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Camaraderie and Class, 18 September 2004
Author: iknowflicks from MI

Perhaps, it was my having seen this movie with a bunch of my Army buddies - while in the Army. Or maybe, being a Larry/Laurence Fishburne FANATIC! It could be that I saw this with my heart open and my mind closed...nah, none of the above reasons are why this movie ranks as one of my all-time favorites. It is the camaraderie and class of the relationship that Martin Sheen created with his main characters.

Never have I seen a movie with such honesty and triumph. Truly, I saw the ending before it came...but I didn't care. Isn't that what a GOOD director will do - make you appreciate the movie and not focus on what the end result will be.

The "End of My Journey" rips through me every time I hear it. A great film study on what true friendship is when race is not factored into the equation. 9/10 - And, I know flicks!

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