DVD 97 IMDB 6.2

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#1168

Drama

Martin Sheen	MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Laurence Fishburne	Roosevelt Stokes
Charlie Sheen	Pfc. Franklin Fairchild Bean
Michael Beach	Edward James Webb
Ramon Estevez	Cpl. Gerald Gessner
Blu Mankuma	Eugene 'Spoonman' Bryce
Harry Stewart	Harry 'Sweetbread' Crane
John Toles-Bey	Andrew Lawrence
James Marshall	Cpl. Harold Lamar
Jay Brazeau	Mr. Vito
F. Murray Abraham
Alec Burden

Director	Martin Sheen
Producer	Richard Davis; Patti Allen; Charlotte Berchtold
Writer	Dennis Shryack; Gordon Weaver

Some Battles Are Fought Off The Battlefield

Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen and Larry Fishburne star in this humorous and powerful story of a defiant, young soldier who discovers the value of friendship in the face of a dangerous enemy.

When the rebellious Private Bean (Charlie Sheen) lands himself in an army stockade, he finds that all of his new roommates belong to a tightly knit club that he can never hope to join. They are black...and he is clearly not. Headed by a street-wise leader named "Stokes" (Larry Fishburne, this five-man "Soul Patrol" harbors a wary distrust for Bean that gradually gives way to mutual respect and acceptance. but the tough, bigoted stockade commander (Martin Sheen) is violently opposed to Bean's new alliance. And now, the once independent Private must stand together with his fellow prisoners against an officer whose personal war threatens to kill them all.