The General's Daughter

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Plot

When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.

Release Year: 1999

Rating: 6.1/10 (27,266 voted)

Critic's Score: 47/100

Director:
Simon West

Stars: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell

Storyline
The naked corpse of Captain Elisabeth Campbell, daughter of Lieutenant General "Fighting Joe" Campbell, is found staked out on the urban warfare range of Fort MacCallum. Army CID detectives and ex-lovers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill are called in to investigate, and find themselves wrapped up in a maelstrom of sexual impropriety and misguided face-saving.

Writers: Nelson DeMille, Christopher Bertolini

Cast:

John Travolta

Warr. Off. Paul Brenner


Madeleine Stowe

Warr. Off. Sara Sunhill


James Cromwell

Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell


Timothy Hutton

Col. William Kent


Leslie Stefanson

Capt. Elizabeth Campbell


Daniel von Bargen

Police Chief Yardley


Clarence Williams III

Col. George Fowler


James Woods

Col. Robert Moore


Peter Weireter

Belling


Mark Boone Junior

Dalbert Elkins


John Beasley

Col. Donald Slesinger


Boyd Kestner

Capt. Jake Elby


Brad Beyer

Capt. Bransford


John Benjamin Hickey

Capt. Goodson


Rick Dial

Cal Seivers

Taglines:
Go behind the lies.

Release Date: 18 June 1999

Filming Locations: Savannah, Georgia, USA



Box Office Details

Budget: $60,000,000

(estimated)

Opening Weekend: $22,332,053
(USA)
(20 June 1999)
(2856 Screens)

Gross: $102,678,089
(USA)
(10 October 1999)



Technical Specs

Runtime:



Did You Know?

Trivia:

Bruce Willis was originally considered for Brenner.

Goofs:

Continuity:
In the armory scene, Belling takes an M-16 out of a box with an M-203 grenade launcher attached to it. In the next shot the grenade launcher is gone and the M-16 has standard hand guards.

Quotes:

[Asking about his relationship with the deceased]

Brenner:
Did you play together?

Colonel Robert Moore:
What a truly excellent question.



User Review

Great movie unfairly savaged by critics.

Rating: 8/10


THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER is movie that has been done before. But it knows
this and is able to look past it's cliché's and have fun with the
genre. A cop(Travolta) is called to an army base to investigate the
death of a general's daughter after she has been raped and beat to
death and left naked and tied to the ground with tent stakes. It's a
ghastly sight and everyone wants him to get to the bottom of it as soon
as possible. The problem is that EVERYONE has something to hide or is
hiding someone who has something to hide. This has an all-star cast and
they are terrific. The story is well written and the cast has some fun
with it along the way. Director Simon West knows how to tell the story
with a slight tongue and cheek flavor and still maintain the very
serious nature of the subject matter. The action sequences are very
well choreographed and the climax is pretty intense. So if you are
looking for a familiar but really good, intense, and exciting action
murder mystery THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER is well worth seeing. No matter
if the critics thumbed their elitist nose's at it. They're loss is our
average Joe's gain. ***1/2 out of 4.