Biloxi Blues

Biloxi Blues

:"This article is about the film. For the play upon which it is based, see Biloxi Blues."

Infobox Film
name = Biloxi Blues



caption = Original poster
director = Mike Nichols
producer = Ray Stark
writer = Neil Simon
narrator = Matthew Broderick
starring = Matthew Broderick
Christopher Walken
Penelope Ann Miller
Corey Parker
music = Georges Delerue
cinematography = Bill Butler
editing = Sam O'Steen
distributor = Universal Pictures
country = United States
released = March 25, 1988USA
runtime = 106 minutes
preceded_by = "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1986)
followed_by = "Broadway Bound" (1992)
language = English
budget =
gross = $51,684,798 (worldwide)
imdb_id = 0094746

"Biloxi Blues" is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Neil Simon is based on his semi-autobiographical 1985 play of the same name.

Plot synopsis

The second chapter in what is known as Simon's "Eugene Trilogy" (the first being "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and the third being "Broadway Bound"), the story centers around Eugene Morris Jerome, a 20-year-old Jewish Brooklynite who enlists in the United States Army during the last year of World War II and is sent to Biloxi, Mississippi for basic training. While there he learns to cope with fellow soldiers from all walks of life, falls in love, and loses his virginity in less than ideal circumstances, all while having to cope with an eccentric drill sergeant.

Production notes

The film was shot on location in Fort Chaffee, Fort Smith and Van Buren, Arkansas.

Period songs heard on the soundtrack include "How High the Moon" by Morgan Lewis and Nancy Hamilton, "Blue Moon" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, "Marie" by Irving Berlin, "Solitude" by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, and Edgar DeLange, "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, and "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (with Anyone Else But Me)" by Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias, and Lew Brown.

The film opened on 1,239 screens in the US and earned $7,093,325 on its opening weekend. It eventually grossed $43,184,798 in the US and $8,500,000 in foreign markets for a worldwide box office total of $51,684,798 [ [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=biloxiblues.htm BoxOfficeMojo.com] ] .

Cast

*Matthew Broderick ..... Eugene Morris Jerome
*Christopher Walken ..... Sgt. Toomey
*Matt Mulhern ..... Joseph Wykowski
*Corey Parker ..... Arnold B. Epstein
*Casey Siemaszko ..... Don Carney
*Markus Flanagan..... Roy Selridge
*Michael Dolan ..... James J. Hennessey
*Penelope Ann Miller ..... Daisy
*Park Overall ..... Rowena

Critical reception

Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" called the film "pale, shallow, unconvincing and predictable" and added, "nothing in this movie seems fresh, well-observed, deeply felt or even much thought about ... It's just a series of setups and camera moves and limp dialogue and stock characters who are dragged on to do their business." [ [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19880325/REVIEWS/803250301/1023 "Chicago Sun-times", March 25, 1988] ]

Rita Kempley of the "Washington Post" thought the film was "an endearing adaptation" and "overall Nichols, Simon and especially Broderick find fresh threads in the old fatigues" despite some "fallow spells and sugary interludes." [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/biloxibluespg13kempley_a0ca27.htm "Washington Post", March 25, 1988] ]

"Variety" called it "an agreeable but hardly inspired film" and added, "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." [ [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117789275.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0 "Variety", January 1, 1988] ]

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