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A Few Good Men is a play by Aaron Sorkin, first produced on Broadway by David Brown in 1989. It tells the story of military lawyers at a court-martial who uncover a high-level conspiracy in the course of defending their clients, two United States Marines accused of murder . It opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in New York on November ...
Colonel Nathan Roy Jessup is the main antagonist of Aaron Sorkin's stage play A Few Good Men as well as its 1992 film adaptation. He was portrayed by Jack Nicholson, who also portrayed Jack Torrance in the 1980 film The Shining, Daryl Van Horne in The Witches of Eastwick, The Joker in the 1989 Batman film, Jimmy Hoffa in the 1992 film Hoffa, and Frank Costello in the 2006 film The Departed ...
Aaron Sorkin’s groundbreaking debut A Few Good Men tells the story of a group of military lawyers assigned to defend two Marines in Guantanamo Bay. During the course of the trial, they uncover a high-level conspiracy designed to eliminate weaker soldiers in the name of patriotism. A Few Good Men had a successful run on Broadway in 1989 and ...
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- AARON SORKIN WROTE THE PLAY ON BAR NAPKINS WHILE BARTENDING. Sorkin’s older sister, Deborah, had recently joined the Navy JAG Corps fresh from graduating from law school when she called him one Sunday morning.
- LINDA HAMILTON AND JODIE FOSTER AUDITIONED FOR THE ROLE OF LT. COMMANDER GALLOWAY. A then-eight-months-pregnant Demi Moore ended up getting the part, and was paid $2 million for the role.
- JASON ALEXANDER WAS SET TO PLAY LT. SAM WEINBERG. But when Seinfeld was renewed by NBC for a second season, he was no longer available. Reiner then gave Kevin Pollak the part after he read with Cruise.
- TOM CRUISE SAW THE BROADWAY PLAY BEFORE SIGNING ON TO PLAY LT. KAFFEE. He also insisted on learning all of the “legalese” dialogue in the script.
Lieutenant (JG) Daniel Alistair Kaffee, USN, JAG Corps is the protagonist of the play A Few Good Men and the 1992 movie based upon the play. Kaffee was the son of a US attorney. Using the navy to help finance his education, Kaffee was biding his time until he fulfilled his service obligations and could go into lucrative private practice. Assigned to defend soldiers facing charges for minor ...
—Sorkin on becoming a writer Sorkin moved to New York City where he spent much of the 1980s as a struggling, sporadically employed actor who worked odd jobs, such as delivering singing telegrams, driving a limousine, touring Alabama with the children's theatre company Traveling Playhouse, handing out flyers promoting a hunting-and-fishing show, and bartending at Broadway's Palace Theatre ...
