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| | Biloxi Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | He encounters, among other things, racism, a drill sergeant who seems to be a nutcase (a hilarious Christopher Walken), and his introduction to paying sex (Broderick is particularly funny in this scene with Park Overall). |
 | | Neil Simon's second in a trilogy of autobiographical plays/movies (BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS was the first), this is set in an Army boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, during WW II. |
 | | The typical cast of barracks boys is presented: a crazy sergeant, a bigoted tough guy, a highly principled Jew, etc. They joke around, fight, visit a whorehouse, etc. The vignette-like scenes are stagey and for the most part sentimental and nostalgic, but many of them work okay. |
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