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Movie Description
An unemployed advertising executive (Danny DeVito) takes a job teaching an underachieving class of Army recruits in this fish-out-of-water story. His radical tactics, though frowned on by the Army, help the students learn, and in turn the kids teach him a thing or two.
Synopsis
Bill Rago, an unemployed advertising exec, accepts a job teaching English to a group of crude, intelligence-free Army privates. Rago eventually converts them (using Shakespeare), and has a positive effect on their personal lives in the process.
Film Notes
The film was shot at Fort Jackson in South Carolina where real soldiers were used as extras.
Released in USA June 3, 1994.
Dolby Recording. Shot in Technicolor.
Copyright Cinergi Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Cinergi Production N.V., and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.
Industry Reviews
"...RENAISSANCE MAN generates its share of laughs, and the filmmakers have done a terrific job of casting the eight recruits with fresh faces who bring the film an inordinate amount of energy..."
Variety - Brian Lowry (05/30/1994)
"...DeVito is remarkably good in the role....It seems to have touched something genuine in him....The result is his best screen work since Barry Levinson's TIN MEN..."
Los Angeles Times - Peter Rainer (06/03/1994)
Quotations
"One Man's Mission To Teach
The Few, The Proud... The Impossible!" -- marketing line for the film
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