Movies

February, 1993

Director Rob Reiner's A Few Good Men(Columbia), adapted by Aaron Sorkin from his hit Broadway play, is dynamite on screen. Except for a midsection that lags a bit, the movie crackles along like a contemporary Caine Mutiny. The subject here is murder in a Marine barracks in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Tom Cruise plays the Navy lawyer assigned to defend two robotic leathernecks (James Marshall and Wolfgang Bodison) accused of killing a fellow Marine--a Hispanic who had leapfrogged the chain of command i...