Biloxi Blues (1988)
Number
two in Neil Simon's autobiographical play trilogy reached the
screen under the direction of Mike Nichols.
 This one is 'opened up' more than
Brighton Beach Memoirs but
its tale of cadet training days at Boot Camp in Mississippi still seems all mouth
and little movement, with lots of dim mirth and rites-of-passage
moralising.
Matthew Broderick plays the Neil Simon alter ego, Eugene Jerome,
negotiating
ethnic tensions, japes in the dorm and the hurdles of a stagey
script.
But Christopher Walken steals the film as a flaky psycho
of a drill Sergeant.
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