CAST AND CREW

DIRECTOR
Martin Brest

WRITING CREDITS
Giovanni Arpino
Bo Goldman

CAST
Al Pacino Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
Chris O'Donnell Charlie Simms
James Rebhorn Mr. Trask
Gabrielle Anwar Donna
Philip Seymour Hoffman George Willis, Jr.
Richard Venture W.R. Slade
Bradley Whitford Randy
Rochelle Oliver Gretchen
Margaret Eginton Gail
Tom Riis Farrell Garry

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Colonel Frank Slade (Pacino) is a blind, cantankerous retired Army man who wants to spend one last big weekend living it up in New York City before killing himself. Charlie (Chris O'Donnell) is a young student from a local upscale boarding school trying to earn enough money to make it home until Christmas. Slade drags him along to NY for a wild weekend.

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade: Hoo ha! If I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a FLAME THROWER to this place ,Ut oh, we got a moron here, is that it? ,Well, gentlemen, when the shit hits the fan, some guys run and some guys stay.

Out of order, I'll show you out of order! You don't know what out of order is Mr. Trask! I'd show you but I'm too old, I'm too tired, and I'm too fuckin' blind. If I were the man I was five years ago I'd take a flame-thrower to this place. Out of order, who the hell do you think you're talking to? I've been around you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen, boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn't nothin' like the sight of an amputated spirit, there is no prosthetic for that. You think you're merely sending this splendid foot-soldier back home to Oregon with his tail between his legs but I say that you are executing his soul. And why? Because he's not a Baird man. Baird men, you hurt this boy, you're going to be Baird Bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are out there, fuck you too.