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Actors: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr.
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Tigerland |
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A group of army recruits, some volunteered and some drafted, struggle through basic training.
One of the drafted men, who doesn't want to be there, is a wise-cracking troublemaker. He's befriended by a guy that volunteered to be there, to write about the experience in the future.
The drafted man's attitude continuously gets him and his unit in trouble. He claims only to care about himself, but after learning more about his cohorts he softens a little. He helps one kid circumvent the rules to get discharged to return to his wife and kids. He then helps another man who breaks down find a loophole to get dismissed.
The volunteer is finding that he doeson't want to be there as much as he'd thought. After there last week at a training camp called tigerland, the drafted man injures the volunteer to get him discharged due to injury. The drafted man shipped out the next day and the volunteer never saw him again. Some said that he was killed, some said that he just disappeared, and one friend said he saw him in Mexico, where he always dreamed of going, with a beautiful girl.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- soldier
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- (man) average build
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
Setting
Jungles?
Yes
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
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