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Jan 1, 2023 · Biloxi Blues (1988): The army post in this film is not in Mississippi. In fact, the movie was actually filmed at Fort Chaffee, near Fort Smith, Arkansas. Van Buren, across the Arkansas River from Fort Smith, stood in for downtown Biloxi.
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Jun 12, 2014 · Overview. 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.
Oct 8, 2014 · Biloxi Blues filmed on location at Fort Chaffee, Ark., and neighboring towns during the spring of 1987. The camp in the real Biloxi, Miss., was no good because it had been refurbished many times since World War II and looked too modern.
- Mike Nichols
- Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick plays the lead as 19-year-old Private Eugene Morris Jerome, who in 1945 is sent to Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi for ten weeks of army basic training. Jerome is a cynical Brooklyn Jew, who wants to become a writer.
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- Universal Pictures, Rastar Productions
- Mike Nichols
Biloxi Blues (1988) was Nichols’s first filming of a play by his longtime stage collaborator Simon, who adapted his popular comedy into a more naturalistic period piece about a young man (Matthew Broderick) who comes of age while undergoing army basic training in the 1940s.…
Directed by Mike Nichols and starring Broadway star Matthew Broderick as Simon's stand-in, Eugene Jerome, the story follows him from the nest of Brooklyn to army basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi, where he gets his introduction to the world beyond Coney Island.
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Mar 25, 1988 · Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Biloxi Blues was the second of playwright Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical trilogy (number one was Brighton Beach Memoirs; number three, Broadway Bound). Matthew Broderick stars as Simon's alter ego Eugene Morris Jerome, who is drafted and shipped off to boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in the waning days of World ...
