Streamers (1983)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 4
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Based on the virulently antimilitary play by David Rabe, Streamers is set in a basic-training barracks. Matthew Modine is among the raw recruits who alternate between strutting around like bantam cocks to snivelling like frightened children. To test one another's manhood, the recruits indulge in violent physical and verbal game playing. Special attention is given those whose skin color or outlook on life is at odds with the "standards" of the group. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Oct 9, 1983 Wide
Jan 19, 2010
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Cast
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Matthew Modine
Billy -
Michael Wright
Carlyle -
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Richie -
David Alan Grier
Roger -
Albert Macklin
Martin -
Guy Boyd
Rooney -
George Dzundza
Sgt. Cokes -
Bill Allen
Lt. Townsend -
Paul Lazar
MP Lieutenant -
Phil Ward
MP Sgt. Kilick
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All Critics (12) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (5) | DVD (7)
It goes partway toward realizing the full effect of a stage play as a film, then botches the job by the overabundant use of film techniques, which dismember what should be an ensemble performance.
Top CriticSure it's searing and intense, but so is a microwave oven.
M*A*S*H* stripped from its wise-guy veneer
... a different kind of filmed theater that combines the intimacy of the original play with a cinematic expressiveness.
It's almost impossible to watch this... with the mindset of the time in which it was created. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing...
Mid-level Altman from the forgotten '80s, a period that ought not to be forgotten entirely.
What elevates the film above a dated topical discussion is Altman's imagining of the army barracks as a hothouse environment where tensions and fears play out in oddly manic outbursts%u2014and his direction of his actors accordingly.
The ensemble cast comes up smart with some fine spontaneous performances.
Conveys the toxic effects of the Vietnam war
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