Biloxi Blues

Name: Biloxi Blues
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: March 25, 1988
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Alan Pottinger, Casey Siemaszko, Christopher Walken, Corey Parker, Markus Flanagan

1988

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 25, 1988 | PG-13

Starring: Alan Pottinger, Casey Siemaszko, Christopher Walken, Corey Parker, Markus Flanagan, Matt Mulhern, Matthew Broderick, Michael Dolan, Park Overall, Penelope Ann Miller

Summary: A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.

Director: Mike Nichols

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 106 min

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Empire William Thomas

The combination of Neil Simon and Mike Nichols has the pair of them back to somewhere near their best. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Biloxi Blues, carefully adapted and reshaped by Mr. Simon, is a very classy movie, directed and toned up by Mike Nichols so there's not an ounce of fat in it. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Perhaps this movie isn't as wise or as profound as Simon wants it to be, but it is certainly a cut above sitcom complacency, and packed with wit and charm. Read full review

Rita Kempley

Overall Nichols, Simon and especially Broderick find fresh threads in the old fatigues. Read full review

Bill Cosford

It's little more than an amiable exercise in nostalgia, but it's nicely performed and handsome to look at. [25 Mar 1988, p.C1]

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Biloxi Blues is an agreeable but hardly inspired film version of Neil Simon's second installment of his autobiographical trilogy, which bowed during the 1984-85 season. 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. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Biloxi Blues may indeed be based on memories from Neil Simon’s experiences in basic training during World War II, but it seems equally based on every movie ever made about basic training, and it suffers by comparison with most of them. Read full review

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