Rating: R
Genre:
War
Theatrical Release: 10/06/2000(USA
Release Date: 04/17/2001
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Adult Language, Substance Abuse, Sexual Situations, War Violence
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
A young man tries to fight the military system only to find it fighting back in unexpected ways in this hard-edged drama. In 1971, Roland Bozz (
Colin Farrell) is a draftee who has been sent to the Advanced Infantry Training Facility in Fort Polk, LA, where with hundreds of other new soldiers he's to be taught a final course in combat skills before being shipped out to Vietnam. Bozz has no interest in going to war, and is determined to get sent home as a troublemaker. But his plan backfires; his superiors regard his insubordination as a sign of intelligence and independent thinking, and he's told he might some day become an officer. Bozz and his fellow soldiers -- aspiring writer Paxton (
Matthew Davis), sensitive Miter (
Clifton Collins Jr.), philosophical Cantwell (
Thomas Guiry), bloodthirsty Wilson (
Shea Whigham), and heroic Johnson (
Russell Richardson) -- are taught how to survive as they face their fears of death and wonder if they can somehow escape going to war.
Tigerland was directed by
Joel Schumacher; in a change of pace from his best-known work (
Falling Down,
Batman Forever, and
Batman and Robin), the film was made on a relatively low budget (under $10 million), was written by first-time screenwriters
Ross Klavan and
Michael McGruther, and features a cast of young, little-known actors.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
