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Broderick acts with a beautifully wary exuberance, full of a puckish vulnerability and anxious, twisted impishness.
Perhaps this movie isn't as wise or as profound as Simon wants it to be, but it is certainly a cut above sitcom complacency, and packed with wit and charm.
Playing a character perched precisely on the point between adolescence and manhood, Broderick is enjoyable all the way.
With superb performances by Mr. Broderick and Christopher Walken, who plays Mr. Simon's nearly unhinged, very funny variation on the drill sergeant of movie myth, ''Biloxi Blues'' has a fully satisfying lif...[ END HERE ] of its own
Overall Nichols, Simon and especially Broderick find fresh threads in the old fatigues.
The movie Mike Nichols has directed from the play is pale, shallow, unconvincing and predictable, and tells us less about the characters than we already know.
The combination of Neil Simon and Mike Nichols has the pair of them back to somewhere near their best.
An intelligent, tightly constructed film which manages to satirize both the military and the process of growing up.
The acting honors are stolen by Christopher Walken.
Suffice it to say it is suicidally against the grain.
Odd blend of comedy and terrorizing between Broderick and Walken.
Great performances elevate Simon's amusing and nostalgic tale.
Charts a Jewish boy's rite of passage into adulthood during 1943 as an Army Recruit.
A predictably charming and well-observed character study from Simon.
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