Renaissance Man
by Penny Marshall
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Actor: Danny DeVito, Ed Begley Jr., Gregory Hines, James Remar, Lillo BrancatoDirector: Penny Marshall
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Producer: Penny Marshall
Producer: Amy Lemisch
Producer: Andrew G. Vajna
Producer: Buzz Feitshans
Producer: Elliot Abbott
Producer: Robert Greenhut
Writer: Jim Burnstein
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of Renaissance Man
Movie Review: A movie of faith
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my faith movies. The faith movies fall into 2 scenarios. One where I watch it on faith that it will be a good movie, and then there's the other scenario where it strikes a chord in my heart, and makes me wake up and listen. The day I saw this movie my heart and faith were in the toilet. I remember feeling sorry for myself, and yet at the same time I remember walking through EPCOT flipping the bird at everyone as I wanted to pick a fight because I was feeling that downhearted. The characters of this movie were all out of faith too:
Bill Rago: Divorced ad artist who lost the biggest account, and his job in one day; is regulated to take a job as a teacher in guess where? The U.S. Army.
Jackson Leroy: Former college football superstar who after a serious injury to his knee had to give up his dream, and make a living for his wife, and soon to be child. Fortunately, he had a good wife to keep him going as his education was limited.
Tommy Lee Haywood: His bubble was burst when the paper mill where he worked was shut down, and with no real college education he was stuck in a trailer.
Miranda Myers : Had a mother who more or less needed a man, and it didn't matter to her whether she needed a daughter, or not.
Melvin Melvin: This is a real name. Tendency to fall asleep as he was the victim of physical abuse growing up.
Brian Davis: Didn't have a father growing up, and that made him feel incomplete as he knew his father was over in Veitnam, but didn't know all the details of how he died.
Donald Benetiz: Wisecracking New Yorker who just didn't seem to have any ambition...especially after the tragic death of his sister.
Jamal Montgomery: Thoroughly undisciplined and arrogant as it seems as though his parents just turned him over to the wolves.
Roosevelt(Nathanial)Hobbs: Quiet unassuming guy, and that's the way he wanted it kept as he was looking for salvation from his past.
Rago is in charge of trying to help all these recruits survive boot camp as they are physically, mentally, and emotionally challenged. This is actually based on a true story where Rago the teacher gets them to succeed academically, and physically, and emotionally by having them read the Shakesphere play "Hamlet". He begins to see some fruit from this that no other person could probably see, and so are the recruits as they've discovered talents they never knew that they had. This movie is not your average comedy, nor your average drama for that matter, but it will grab you somehow even if you don't like it. If it doesn't it's up to you.
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