When John Travolta first opens his mouth during the opening credits of The General's Daughter and speaks in a terrible Southern cracker drawl, one briefly hopes the movie will turn out to be just as hilariously bad. Unfortunately, the accent is soon revealed to be part of a disguise, and the movie is just as quickly unveiled as a clumsy, run-of-the-mill potboiler, too mediocre to be truly hysterical fun. A female officer is discovered strangled and tied to the ground; she's the title character, and because of the general's political ambitions, the mystery of who did... it and why has to be wrapped up in 36 hours by Travolta and fellow CID officer Madeleine Stowe (Last of the Mohicans, 12 Monkeys). Sexual violence and lurid S&M have been thrown in to shore up the incomprehensible plot, but that only adds to the queasy atmosphere. The supporting actors--an impressive collection including James Woods (Salvador), Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People), and James Cromwell (Babe, L.A. Confidential)--don't embarrass themselves, but even they can't make sense of their blustering, macho dialogue. It's amazing that, screenwriter William Goldman (who wrote such great and genuinely thrilling films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Man, All the President's Men and Misery) left his name attached to this script; there's no sign of his usual skill and intelligence. Madeleine Stowe, a graceful presence in any film, is equally wasted. It was directed with a lot of empty flash by Simon West (Con Air). --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Army way. But there's no way military investigator Paul Brenner (John Travolta) is going to participate in a cover-up when Fort MacCallum officials try to hide the motive behind the murder of a female officer. Travolta's magnetic performance sparks this riveting thriller from the director of Con Air and the producer of The Hunt For Red October. Actors John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, James Woods, Timothy Hutton, Clarence Williams III, Leslie Stefanson & Boyd Kestner Director Simon West Certificate 18 years and over Year 1999 Screen Widescreen 2.35:1 Anamorphic Languages English - Dolby Digital (5.1) Additional Languages German Subtitles English For The Hearing Impaired ; English ; Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; German ; Icelandic ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Romanian ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 1 hour and 52 minutes (approx)
When the raped and murdered body of Captain Elisabeth Campbell (Leslie Stefanson) is discovered at Fort McCallum, Warrant Officer Paul Brenner (John Travolta) is given just thirty-six hours to investigate before the FBI are called in. Teaming up with his ex-girlfriend, army rape-counsellor Sarah Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe), Brenner determines to discover exactly what is going on at the army base - no matter whose toes he has to step on. But as he gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that certain parties will do everything in their power to protect their secret.
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