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Santini wants to win at everything, even backyard basketball with his son. But the son is learning to be his own man. And there's a subplot involving a friendship between O'Keefe and the intense actor Stan Shaw, who plays the son of the family's black maid.
The Great Santini PG Released Oct 26, 1979 1h 58m Drama List 95% Tomatometer 20 Reviews 75% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings Bull Meechum (Robert Duvall) is a great fighter pilot -- so great...
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- Lewis John Carlino
- PG
- Robert Duvall
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Leonard Klady Winnipeg Free Press. The Great Santini is great. It's a raw, uncompromising film which leaves the audience emotionally drained but...
The Great Santini is a 1979 American drama film written and directed by Lewis John Carlino. It is based on the 1976 novel of the same name by Pat Conroy. The film stars Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, and Michael O'Keefe.
- $4 million
- October 26, 1979
- Charles A. Pratt
- Elmer Bernstein
The Great Santini is a film about a once well respected American war pilot Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum (Robert Mitchum) whose excessive binge drinking is about the only substance that can dull his pain from previous battle fatigue.
May 5, 1976 · Lt. Colonel Bull Meecham is the terror of the Marine flight squadron he commands in South Carolina and an even greater menace at home, where he runs his wife and four children on schedules like a drill instructor turning recruits into psychopaths.
Jan 1, 2001 · Pat Conroy. 4.15. 33,122 ratings1,440 reviews. Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine --- fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife -- beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel.
