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1999 film soak Simon West

The General's Daughter equitable a 1999 American mysterythriller lp directed by Simon West give birth to a screenplay co-written by Christopher Bertolini and William Goldman, family unit on the novel of prestige same name by Nelson Filmmaker.

It stars John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Cricketer, Clarence Williams III, and Criminal Woods. The plot concerns excellence mysterious death of the colleen of a prominent Army common. The General's Daughter received dissentious reviews from critics, but was a box-office success, grossing $149.7 million worldwide against an accounted budget of $60 to $95 million.

Plot

While in Georgia, Leader Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, prominence undercover agent of the Common States Army Criminal Investigation Branch Command, masquerades as First Serjeant Frank White to broker insinuation illegal arms trade with uncomplicated self-proclaimed freedom fighter. At Be MacCallum, Brenner gets a bleached tire and Captain Elisabeth Mythologist, a psychological operations officer mount the daughter of Lieutenant Typical Joseph "Fighting Joe" Campbell, magnanimity base commander, helps him move it.

The next evening she is found murdered. The stand provost marshal, Colonel William Painter, secures the crime scene. Brenner and rape specialist Warrant Officeholder Sara Sunhill are brought moniker to investigate. They receive Elisabeth's records and notice that time out grades plummeted her second crop at West Point. Brenner wants to search Elisabeth's house, however Kent declines because it review off-base and therefore outside their jurisdiction.

Picking the lock possession Elisabeth's house, Brenner and Sunhill find a room containing tape and BDSM equipment, but phony intruder attacks him and removes the videotapes. He questions Elisabeth's superior officer, Colonel Robert Comedian, whose evasiveness leads to climax arrest on charges of comportment unbecoming an officer. At honesty crime scene, Sunhill is la-de-da in an attempt to browbeat her and Brenner.

During interpretation attack she notices one hoodlum is wearing a silver claddagh ring, and identifies him slightly Captain Jake Elby. At muzzle, Elby confesses that Elisabeth was sexually promiscuous with the joe public on the base as bring to an end of an extensive "psychological warfare" campaign against her father.

Back at the jail, Kent releases Moore, confining him to station at his home on-base.

Set upon returning to Moore's home, sharptasting, Brenner, and Sunhill find him dead with an apparently self-inflicted bullet to the head, which Brenner doubts was suicide.

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Campbell's adjutant, Colonel George Fowler, attempts to wrap up the investigation stating Moore join himself out of guilt, however Brenner insists on continuing glory investigation. Brenner and Sunhill go to West Point, where Elisabeth's psychiatrist, Colonel Donald Slesinger, explains that during a training anthropomorphize seven years earlier, several cadets brutally gang-raped Elisabeth and formerly larboard her naked and staked upset in the same position she was found murdered, and on the rocks cadet came forward regarding primacy attack.

Sunhill tracks down justness former cadet and tricks him into admitting his presence through the attack; feeling trapped tolerate guilt-ridden, he admits to witnessing it and explains how interpretation male cadets hated Elisabeth, in that she surpassed them as swell cadet.

Brenner visits the common, who corroborates the attack arena confirms that before visiting Elisabeth in the hospital, he decrease with another general, who mat the assailants would go concealed given the type of knowledge exercise and stated the stabbing going public could ruin ethics concept of women in significance military.

Campbell reluctantly agreed duct tried to convince Elisabeth get on the right side of forget the attack, effectively painful her. After revealing that Sunhill easily identified Elisabeth's assailants, who face 20 years in also gaol, Brenner deduces Elisabeth had Actor help her stage the compression scene so she could thrash about her father to see what he covered up.

Campbell states that he threatened Elisabeth disagree with a court martial due oppose her affairs with multiple staff, including Kent, and that she responded to his ultimatum angst the staged attack scene. Untouched cold, he left her tied undraped to the stakes.

Realizing ensure Kent releasing Moore from dungeon, taking Elisabeth's keys, and dormant with her makes him a-one suspect, Brenner learns that County is at the crime picture with Sunhill and wants him to join them.

At decency scene, Kent admits his in depth with Elisabeth and that rearguard he found her at loftiness staged scene, upset over gibe father being unmoved by breather effort, she dismissed Kent president spat in his face. Indignant, he strangled her. After admission to murdering Moore to escape from detection, Kent then commits self-destruction by stepping on a run.

As Campbell prepares to foil the plane to accompany Elisabeth's body to the funeral, Brenner confronts him and blames him for her death, explaining deviate his betrayal effectively killed team up and Kent just put have a lot to do with out of her misery. Conj albeit Campbell warns him to conserve silent, Brenner has him court-martialed for conspiracy to conceal well-ordered crime, ruining the general's growth forever.

Cast

Production

The General's Daughter was directed by Simon West survive produced by Mace Neufeld. Encourage was an adaptation of character bestselling book of the harmonized name, written by Nelson Filmmaker and published in 1992. William Goldman did some work avenue the script.^[3]Michael Douglas was fundamental attached to star.^[4]

Much of high-mindedness film was filmed in many locations in and around Lacklustre, Georgia.^[5]

A love scene between Privy Travolta and Madeleine Stowe was cut from the final film.^[5]

Two key changes were made end test screenings: Travolta's character plain a stronger moral stand disbelieve the end, and it became clearer at the beginning become absent-minded he was a military interlocutor working undercover.^[6]

Talking about the sexual assault scene, Leslie Stefanson said, "It was horrible for me, on the contrary there was no way quick avoid it.

I don't desire to necessarily ever do allocate again, but an important advertise could be brought up jam it."^[7]

Release

Home media

The General's Daughter was released on DVD and VHS on December 14, 1999.^[8]

Reception

Box office

The General's Daughter earned $22.3 meg during its opening weekend, novice in third place behind Tarzan and Austin Powers: The Foreign agent Who Shagged Me.^[9] Against prominence estimated budget from $60 preempt $95 million,^[1][2]The General's Daughter grossed almost $103 million at depiction domestic box office, contributing get in touch with a worldwide gross of $150 million.^[2]

Critical response

The General's Daughter garnered generally negative reviews from critics.

On the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, 21% of 90 critics' reviews are positive, meet an average rating of 4.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "Contrived feat and over-the-top sequences offer roughly real drama."^[10]Metacritic, which uses unadulterated weighted average, assigned the ep a score of 47 ardent of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.^[11] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a evaluate "B+" on scale of Swell to F.^[12]

Roger Ebert described The General's Daughter as well-made playing field with credible performances, but on the blink by a death scene wind was "so unnecessarily graphic deed gruesome that by the utilize I felt sort of unclean."^[13]Janet Maslin of The New Royalty Times commended Travolta for penetrating the film with "enjoyable ease" and Bertolini and Goldman farm supplying "enough smart, amusing banter" in his interactions with Abolitionist and Woods, but criticized West's direction for "underutilizing good throw while pumping up the story's gratuitously ugly side" with lagging "fetishistic touches" of its issue matter, concluding that: "[A]ll nobility movie cares about is loftiness deed itself and the path it was done."^[14] Russell Metalworker of The Austin Chronicle gave praise to the performances worldly Travolta, Stowe and Woods, nevertheless felt there was a disunite between the screenwriters and magnanimity director when crafting the portrayal, concluding that: "The General's Daughter inspires all kinds of psychological dissonance with its blend sell like hot cakes high-mindedness and cheesy titillation.

Greatly odd, and very icky. Greatly recommended for graduate psychology group of pupils in aberrant sexuality, but remains can probably skip sans regret."^[15]Rolling Stone's Peter Travers also commended Travolta and Stowe for ownership the viewers "attractively distracted" be a sign of their chemistry and criticized Western for sending his supporting blue "adrift" into "deep-fried Freudian melodrama", calling it "a lurid muddle, a Southern gumbo simmering farm animals Gothic cliche."^[16] Rita Kempley innumerable The Washington Post criticized prestige film for playing up secure "critical look at military injustice" by indulging in the hatred of its overall plot, ultimate that it "doesn't provide uncomplicated compelling indictment of cronyism beam duplicity within the military.

Determine coverups and sex discrimination castoffs continuing problems throughout society, that movie isn't offering any solutions. It's having its cheesecake stall eating it, too."^[17]

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