
New York City teenager Eugene Jerome starts military service thoughtfully yet patriotically prepared to take part in World War II. At boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, he faces the brutally opposed views of other recruits, which he must live with. Still they must bind, if not bond, facing the sadistic drill sergeant during their physically ruthless and mentally abusive training, which is heading for tragedy. Meanwhile, their boyish minds wander often to sexual frustrations, f... (Full plot summary below)
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New York City teenager Eugene Jerome starts military service thoughtfully yet patriotically prepared to take part in World War II. At boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, he faces the brutally opposed views of other recruits, which he must live with. Still they must bind, if not bond, facing the sadistic drill sergeant during their physically ruthless and mentally abusive training, which is heading for tragedy. Meanwhile, their boyish minds wander often to sexual frustrations, from obsession with potency (and escaping virginity) to prejudice against gays. Armed only with his sense of humor, Eugene is determined to leave camp with everything he came with.
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| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumPerhaps this movie isn't as wise or as profound as Simon wants it to be, but it is certainly a cut above sitcom complacency, and packed with wit and charm. |
| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumOdd blend of comedy and terrorizing between Broderick and Walken. |
| Tampa Bay TimesHal LipperNichols gives the piece a funny, fragile somber mood that works almost completely. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyBiloxi Blues, carefully adapted and reshaped by Mr. Simon, is a very classy movie, directed and toned up by Mike Nichols so there's not an ounce of fat in it. |
| EmpireWilliam ThomasThe combination of Neil Simon and Mike Nichols has the pair of them back to somewhere near their best. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrBiloxi Blues also wants to be a confessional, coming-of-age memoir, but again, it works better around the edges than it does in its central conception. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonBroderick acts with a beautifully wary exuberance, full of a puckish vulnerability and anxious, twisted impishness. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyOverall Nichols, Simon and especially Broderick find fresh threads in the old fatigues. |
| VarietyVariety StaffPlaying a character perched precisely on the point between adolescence and manhood, Broderick is enjoyable all the way. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordBiloxi Blues is an agreeable but hardly inspired film version of Neil Simon's second installment of his autobiographical trilogy, which bowed during the 1984-85 season. Even with high-powered talents Mike Nichols and Matthew Broderick aboard, World War II barracks comedy provokes just mild laughs and smiles rather than the guffaws Simon's work often elicits in the theater. |