Movie · 1994
Renaissance Man
“One man's mission to teach the few, the proud... The impossible!”
Released 3 June 1994 128 min Comedy / Drama More from 1994 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.
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How old were they?
Cliff Robertson
as Colonel James
Michael Haley
as Florist
Danny DeVito
as Bill Rago
Gregory Hines
as Sergeant Cass
Ed Begley Jr.
as Jack Markin
James Remar
as Captain Tom Murdoch
Ann Cusack
as Bill's Secretary
Gregory Sporleder
as Pvt. Melvin
Khalil Kain
as Pvt. Roosevelt Nathaniel Hobbs
Kadeem Hardison
as Soldat Jamaal Montgomery
Stacey Dash
as Soldat Miranda Myers
Richard T. Jones
as Pvt. Jackson Leroy
Mark Wahlberg
as Pvt. Tommy Lee Haywood
Matt Keeslar
as MP at Gate
Lillo Brancato
as Soldat Donnie Benitez
Alanna Ubach
as Emily Rago
Peter Simmons
as Pvt. Brian Davis, Jr.
Jeb Brown
as Young Executive #1
Christopher James Baker
as Laundry Private #1
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The numbers
0.6×$40m budget became $24m at the box office
52years between the oldest and youngest billed
70Cliff Robertson — oldest on the call sheet
18Alanna Ubach — youngest billed
34average age of the credited cast