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The Great Santini

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The Great Santini
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PG,1hr 58min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1979
Director:
Lewis John Carlino
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe  ...more
Synopsis: Bull Meechum (Robert Duvall) loves fighting almost as much as he loves the Marine Corps. Profane, cocky, and arrogant, he's a great fighter pilot -- and he knows it. His boss hates his guts, but knows that if he's going to straighten out his lagging squadron, Meechum is the man to do it. The story and irony of The Great Santini is in Meechum's total intolerance of family life and fatherhood. Meechum has a lovely, supportive wife, Lillian (Blythe Danner), an earnest, likeable son, Ben (Michael O'Keefe), ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Lewis John Carlino brings Pat Conroy's novel about a top Marine pilot who terrorizes his family vibrantly to life. Robert Duvall stars as the tyrannical Bull Meechum, a cocky fighter pilot who has trouble adjusting to a desk job and domestic life. He runs the family with the same military precision he has always brought to his job, and is unable to express his love for them in any normal way. While ... Full Review
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Robert Duvall
Bull Meecham
Blythe Danner
Lillian Meechum
Michael O'Keefe
Ben Meechum
Lisa Jane Persky
Mary Anne Meechum
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