Cadence
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Actor: Alec Burden, Charlie Sheen, Jay Brazeau, John Toles-Bey, Martin SheenBrand: Lions Gate
Cinematographer: Richard Leiterman
Composer: Georges Delerue
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-09
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Republic Pictures
Movie Reviews of Cadence
Movie Review: Oh don't you know...
Summary: 5 Stars
THE WAR: Vietnam is ongoing, and in more ways than one it's a war of minds, "Hearts and Minds." As an extension, it's a war of leadership and ideals; where prejudice cannot obstruct truth, and disharmony can atrophy the fellowship of camaraderie and the strength of solidarity.
STORY: Young Private Bean (C. Sheen) gets tattoos on his hands, beats an MP, and gets sent to a military stockade under the command of Master Sergeant Otis McKinney (M. Sheen). What Bean finds is that he's not initially welcome amongst his fellow inmates, all black, one of whom is Stokes (Fishburne), but he's also leery about McKinney. He must eventually choose a side, and just like every other black-white movie in existence, learn a dance step from a black person.
PATRIOTISM: True patriotism is having the courage and fortitude to challenge unlawful orders, to stand up in the face of dangerously negligent leadership and defend what is just. To be a patriot is to proud of one's country, and it's impossible to display that pride without believing in and standing up for the ideals that makes a country great. Foreign AND domestic.
FAVORITE BATTLE(S): Any movie in which Charlie Sheen takes a beating is a good one in my book. In this one, Private Bean gets into a scuffle with a fellow inmate, Webb, who has a penchant for kleptomania. Unfortunate for Bean, Private Webb
FAVORITE LINE: That's the sound of the man, working on the chain, ga-e-ang.
THE MESSAGE: Much like the Army's former slogan, "Army of One," Cadence is about unity and solidarity. It's about bonding with fellow soldiers regardless of difference, and to some extent, that's what calling cadence and marching in formation is all about.
Great movie. Highly entertaining. The scenes where the prisoners are marching and singing cadence will be stuck in your head well after viewing. Do yourself a favor and look up "Chain Gang from Cadence" on YouTube. Oh don't you know...
Summary of Cadence
Martin Sheen makes his directorial debut with this prison drama set on a United States army base in West Germany during the 1960s. As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up against the insanely tyrannical and bigoted prison warden.Martin Sheen's 1991 directorial debut features Sheen as the disturbed head of a military stockade where the prisoners include a troublemaking Army misfit played by his son Charlie. Private Bean (Charlie Sheen) is thrown into the stockade with a group of five blacks calling themselves the Soul Patrol, and gradually learns teamwork from the men, including their leader Stokes (Laurence Fishburne). Eventually the tug of war between Bean and the bigoted commander reaches a boiling point with tragic conclusions, and Bean learns the meaning of compassion and the difference between right and wrong. The film is nothing particularly inspiring or insightful, but the supporting players, including Fishburne, give solid performances, and Cadence affords the audience a chance to see the father and son team work together in an earnest and well-meaning drama. --Robert Lane
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