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Bull Meechum (Robert Duvall) is a hard case, a fighter pilot so skilled that he's called The Great Santini. But now it's peacetime 1962. And more at home playing "top gun" in the cockpit than father in his living room, he's become that most useless figure: a warrior without a war.
Based on Pat Conroy's autobiographical bestseller, the film gathers other powerful actors alongside Duvall (a 1980 Best Actor Academy Award Nominee) - fellow Oscar contender Michael O'Keefe, Blythe Danner, and Lisa Jane Persky - as family members showing courage under fire as Meechum battles his demons. Their work makes The Great Santini soar.
Editor's Note
Robert Duvall gives an amazing performance as a Marine fighter pilot who funnels his frustrated desire to fight into creating a tip-top battalion out of his own emotionally battered family. His adolescent son suffers the most from the Colonel's inability to express love through anything but discipline. This critically acclaimed movie has become a touchstone for dysfunctional families and is based on the Pat Conroy novel.
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