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| Razor-shaved sex symbol star Demi Moore is a fierce eye-catcher on this poster for Ridley Scott's G.I. Jane |
An ambitious female politician pushes the US military towards full integration of genders and gets the opportunity of putting the first woman to date through the army's toughest education: The Navy Seals.
G.I. Jane is written by David Twohy (Critters 2 (1988)) and Danielle Alexandra (My Two Dads (1987-90)) and directed by British master filmmaker Ridley Scott (The Duellists (1977)), whose 10th feature it is.
Anne Bancroft (Fatso (1980)) is silly and flat as the senator in question, who begins the story, and the same unfortunately goes for the film's star Demi Moore (The Juror (1996)), although she does work like a devil for this movie and certainly gives it her all.
If one is not immediately struck by the injustice of women not being 100 % equal to men in the military, (which I wasn't), then it has to be a more personal story that engages in G.I. Jane, - but it just isn't there. Moore's character remains a cipher, whom we essentially know nothing about; she simply is the woman with something to prove (about women.)
Viggo Mortensen (The Crew (1994)) sleep-walks uninspired through the film. Scott experiments with shaking and zoom camera effects towards the film's ending to highly disrupting effect. G.I. Jane is a thrill-less stinker and among Scott's worst.
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Moore guested David Letterman and promoted the film; watch a 7-minute video of the event here
Cost: 50 mil. $
Box office: 48.1 mil. $ (North America alone)
= Uncertain, but likely a big flop (returned 0.96 times its cost domestically)
[G.I. Jane was released 22 August (USA, Lebanon) and runs 124 minutes. The story is entirely fictional. Shooting took place from April - August 1996 in England, California, including Los Angeles, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington DC. The film opened #1 to an 11 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it kept the #1 position for another 2 weekends and spent another 2 in the top 5 (#2-#2), grossing 48.1 mil. $. Regrettably the film's foreign numbers are not reported online. If it ended up with a realistic 75 mil. $ total gross, the film would rank as a big flop. Roger Ebert gave it a 3.5/4 star review, translating to 3 notches over this one. The film reportedly earned further 22.1 mil. $ on home video rentals in North America. Scott returned with Gladiator (2000). Moore returned in Deconstructing Harry (1997). G.I. Jane is rotten at 51 % with a 5.70/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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