Biloxi Blues
The Army made Eugene a man. But Daisy gave him basic training!
Biloxi Blues (1988)
Timing:
1:46 (106 min)
6.286/10
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7.282/10
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6.7/10
17000
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Country
Production
Genre
Comedy, Drama, War
Budget
$20 000 000
Revenue
$51 684 798
Director
Actors
Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker, Markus Flanagan, Casey Siemaszko, Michael Dolan, Penelope Ann Miller, Park Overall, Alan Pottinger
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Ray Stark, Joseph M. Caracciolo, Marykay Powell
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Juliet Taylor
Editing
Sam O'Steen
All team (58)
All team (58)
Short description
Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his basic training, the Army sends him to Camp Shelby in Mississippi, where toil, bad food, and antisemitic jibes await. Eugene takes refuge in his sense of humor and in his diary, but they won't protect him in a battle of wills with an unstable drill sergeant.
What's left behind the scenes
- The scene in which the characters go to a prostitute was filmed in the city of Van Buren, Arkansas. A significant portion of the film was shot in the neighboring town of Fort Smith.
- Cinematographer Bill Butler filmed the movie in Super 35 (which involves using standard 35mm film and spherical cinematographic lenses).
- The word “Biloxi” refers to a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, where the film and the play it is based on are set. The action also takes place in Gulfport, which is located on the Gulf of Mexico and forms a single coastal agglomeration with the cities of Biloxi and Pascagoula. However, the film was shot in the state of Arkansas.
- In the US Army, basic training lasts ten weeks.
- Matthew Broderick, Matt Mulhern, and Penelope Ann Miller played the same characters in the Broadway production (1985) of the play by Neil Simon (1927-2018).
- The word “blues” in the film’s title refers to the melancholy associated with the difficulties of basic training.
- In some scenes, mountains are clearly visible in the background. Mountains are not visible from the shore of the Gulf of Mexico in Mississippi.
- Sergeant Tumy, played by Christopher Walken, says that the platoon will be sent either to the Pacific Theater of Operations or to northern Sicily. The film is set in 1945, while Sicily was taken back in 1943, and in 1945 fighting was already taking place on German territory.
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