Taps Movie Review 1981

Military academy students led by Hutton are so true to their school they lay siege to it to keep it from being closed. An antiwar morality play about excesses of zeal and patriotism. Predictable but impressive.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 126 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Adventure Drama, Childhood Visions, Patriotism & Paranoia, Military School

Screenplay

Robert Mark Kamen, Darryl Ponicsan

Cast

Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise

Cinematography

Owen Roizman

Director

Harold Becker

Music

Maurice Jarre

Other

Maury Winetrobe

Producer

20th Century-Fox