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In response to political pressure from Senator Lillian DeHaven, the U.S. Navy begins a program that would allow for the eventual integration of women into its services. The program begins with a single trial candidate, Lieutenant Jordan O’Neil, who is chosen specifically for her femininity. O’Neil enters the grueling training program under the command of Master Chief John James Urgayle, who unfairly pushes O’Neil until her determination wins his respect.

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Film Cast:

Lt. Jordan O’Neil: Demi Moore
Master Chief John James Urgayle: Viggo Mortensen
McCool: Morris Chestnut
Flea: Josh Hopkins
Cortez: David Vadim
Slovnik: Jim Caviezel
Wickwire: Boyd Kestner
Instructor Pyro: Kevin Gage
Instructor Johns: David Warshofsky
Royce: Jason Beghe
Senator Lillian DeHaven: Anne Bancroft
C.O. Salem: Scott Wilson
Theodore Hayes: Daniel von Bargen
Newberry: Angel David
Blondell: Lucinda Jenney
Chief of Staff: John Michael Higgins
Stamm: Stephen Ramsey
Miller: Gregg Bello
Flag Officer: Ted Sutton
Flag Officer: Gary Wheeler
Yeoman Davis: Donn Swaby
Goldstein: Jack Gwaltney
Duty Officer: Neal Jones
Civilian Secretary: Rhonda Overby
Admiral O’Connor: Stephen Mendillo
Cook Compliments: Dan DePaola
Civilian Girl: Susan Aston
JAG: John Seitz
JAG: Kent Lindsey
WNM Reporter: Bob Moore
Artillery Instructor: Harry Humphries
Commission Speaker: Michael Currie
Press Hound: Steve Gonzales
Barber: Arthur Max
Photographer: Billy Dowd
Instructor: Duffy Gaver
Instructor: Scott Helvenston
Hostile Rat: Phil Neilson
Trainee: Dimitri Diatchenko
Trainee: David Bruce
Trainee: David Overton
Trainee: Hashem Shaalan
Trainee: Chris Soule
Libyan Sentry: Joseph Makkar
Scorpion Leader (uncredited): Rick Cramer
Scorpion Team Member (uncredited): Mel Mede
Pilot (uncredited): Jesse G. Martin
Humvee Driver (uncredited): Rocky Essex
Instructor (uncredited): Jim Pearson
Trainee (uncredited): Wyatt Werneth
Trainee (uncredited): Daniel Link
Senator (uncredited): Raymond H. Johnson
DeHaven’s Aide (uncredited): Dani Englander
DeHaven’s Aide (uncredited): Irene Ziegler
C-SPAN Reporter (uncredited): Michael Wayne Thomas
C-SPAN Technician (uncredited): Rodney J. Hobbs
Jane’s Neighbor (uncredited): Diandra Newlin
D.C. Police Officer (uncredited): Thomas Reid

Film Crew:

Director: Ridley Scott
Set Decoration: Cindy Carr
Executive Producer: Danielle Alexandra
Producer: Suzanne Todd
Costume Design: Marilyn Vance
Original Music Composer: Trevor Jones
Second Unit Director: Hugh Johnson
Producer: Demi Moore
Editor: Pietro Scalia
Casting: Louis DiGiaimo
Producer: Roger Birnbaum
Screenplay: David Twohy
Art Direction: Richard L. Johnson
Casting: Brett Goldstein
Stunt Coordinator: Phil Neilson
Utility Stunts: Scott Helvenston
Utility Stunts: Duffy Gaver
Utility Stunts: Mark Lonsdale
Utility Stunts: Steve Bolan
Utility Stunts: G. Peter King
Stunt Double: Leigh Hennessy
Stunt Double: Keith Woulard
Stunts: Darrin Prescott
Stunts: Chris Soule
Stunts: Charles Grisham
Stunts: Brian Finn
Stunts: Hash Shallan
Stunt Double: Cinda-Lin James
Executive Producer: Julie Bergman Sender
Executive Producer: Chris Zarpas
Unit Production Manager: Nigel Wooll
First Assistant Director: Terry Needham
Associate Producer: Diane Minter Lewis
Associate Producer: Tim McBride
Unit Production Manager: Michele Imperato Stabile
Second Assistant Director: Darin Rivetti
Second Assistant Director: Adam Somner
Script Supervisor: Luca Kouimelis
Camera Operator: Craig Haagensen
Camera Operator: Terry Bowen
Production Controller: Andy Birmingham
Technical Advisor: Harry Humphries
Supervising Art Director: William Hiney
Aerial Coordinator: David Paris
Costume Supervisor: David Rawley
Key Makeup Artist: Cheri Minns
Production Sound Mixer: Keith A. Wester
Property Master: Eric J. Bates
Gaffer: Chuck Finch
Production Supervisor: Daneen Conroy
Second Assistant Director: J. David Brightbill
Second Assistant Director: Christopher Surgent
Construction Coordinator: Dan Pemberton
Special Effects Coordinator: Steve Galich
Still Photographer: Phil Bray
First Assistant Camera: Tony Rivetti Jr.
First Assistant Camera: Fred L. McLane
Second Assistant Camera: Frank D. Parrish
Second Assistant Camera: David Brink
Boom Operator: Timothy P. Salmon
Video Assist Operator: Richard Scarpone
Additional Editor: Pamela Power
Associate Editor: Chris Innis
Assistant Editor: Chisako Yokoyama
Assistant Editor: Paul Elman
Assistant Editor: Tristan Mullane
Supervising Sound Editor: Campbell Askew
Dialogue Editor: John Cochrane
ADR Editor: Robert Gavin
Sound Editor: Jeremy Child
Foley Editor: John Ireland
Music Editor: Andrew Glen
Assistant Sound Editor: Derek Lomas
Assistant Sound Editor: Sarah Dane
Assistant Sound Editor: Adrian Trent
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Ray Merrin
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Graham Daniel
Production Coordinator: Amy Taft
Production Coordinator: Shari Leibowitz
Assistant Production Coordinator: Catherine Schwenn
Post Production Supervisor: Michael Solinger
Production Accountant: Gary Gillingham
First Assistant Accountant: Rick Baer
Assistant Accountant: Rob Meisenholder
Assistant Accountant: Chris McComb
Assistant Accountant: Sarah Millar
Actor’s Assistant: Mark Hunter Reinking
Production Coordinator: Clare St. John
Production Coordinator: Allison Sherman
Extras Casting: Billy Dowd
Assistant Art Director: Bill Taliaferro
Set Designer: Thomas Minton
Leadman: Jon Danniells
On Set Dresser: Chuck Askerneese
Special Effects: Jeff Frink
Special Effects: Ray Svedin
Special Effects: Phillip Beck Jr.
Special Effects: Morgan Guynes
Special Effects: Chris Brenczewski
Special Effects: Ken Gorrell
Special Effects: Allen Richardson
Special Effects: Jeff Sparks
Key Costumer: Joe McCloskey
Makeup Artist: Brad Wilder
Makeup Artist: Rodger Jacobs
Assistant Makeup Artist: Kylie Bell
Key Hair Stylist: Dorothy D. Fox
Key Grip: W.C. ‘Chunky’ Huse
Best Boy Grip: Daniel R. Haizlip
Grip: Scott W. Leftridge
Grip: Sean Finnegan
Grip: Frank Ryan
Grip: Andrew Taylor
Grip: Rick Uva
Grip: Edward ‘Gooch’ Gutierrez
Grip: Kevin Jackson
Key Rigging Grip: Steve Owen
Rigging Gaffer: Craig Ligget
Best Boy Electric: Steven Litecky
Electrician: Andrew Reed Conner
Electrician: Bill Fiedler
Electrician: Michael Goldman
Electrician: Stuart Bicknell
Electrician: Todd Ranson
Electrician: Robert Spencer
Set Production Assistant: Adam Collins
Stand In: Kelly Wroe
Unit Publicist: Terry J. Erdmann
Transportation Coordinator: Tommy Tancharoen
Transportation Captain: Lee Garibaldi
Craft Service: Craig Glaser
Location Manager: Carol Flaisher
Technical Advisor: Karyn V. Cody
Rigging Gaffer: Chris Walters
Key Rigging Grip: Lee Shapira
Assistant Art Director: Rob Simons
Construction Manager: Ron Breedlove
Transportation Captain: Gilbert Young
Location Manager: Mary Morgan
Transportation Captain: Danny Mortenson
Assistant Location Manager: John McSweeney
Transportation Coordinator: Gene R. Johnson
Transportation Captain: Robert W. Simpson
Production Manager: Donald Heitzer
Music Coordinator: Victoria Seale
Music Supervisor: Kathy Nelson
Music Editor: Alex Marcou
Additional Music: Peter Cobbin
Musician: Paul Clarvis
Musician: Clem Clempson
Musician: Charlie Morgan
Musician: Phil Todd
Negative Cutter: Jason Wheeler
Color Timer: Paul Ensby
Production Coordinator: Deirdre de Tappan
Post Production Coordinator: Marisa Johnston
Location Manager: Ken Haber
Location Manager: Errol Reichow
Script Supervisor: Marion Tumen
Key Makeup Artist: Cheryl Markowitz
Costume Supervisor: Ed Fincher
Second Unit Director of Photography: Dan Mindel
First Assistant Camera: Bill McConnell Sr.
First Assistant Camera: John Skotchdopole
Sound Mixer: David M. Ronne
Boom Operator: Jules Strasser
Best Boy Electric: Jeff Sondberg
Key Grip: Gary Kangrga
Art Direction: Virginia Randolph-Weaver
Property Master: Allan Gordon
Transportation Coordinator: Russell McEntyre
Key Hair Stylist: Diana Acrey
Second Company Grip: Gerrit Garretsen
Set Medic: Frank Moorefield
Head of Production: Ned Dowd
Production Design: Arthur Max

Movie Reviews:

John Chard: Listen, you moron! I am here to stay and if you don’t wanna be in my life, you’ve got two choices. Move out or Ring out! That’s it! End of File!
G.I. Jane is directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Twohy and Danielle Alexandra. It stars Demi Moore, Vigo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, John Michael Higgins and Kevin Gage. Music is by Trevor Jones and cinematography by Hugh Johnson.
A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training (Navy Seals) where everyone expects her to fail.
Having made a telling feminist mark with his excellent Thelma and Louise in 1991, Ridley Scott picks up the lady baton once again only to drop it half way through. This is a film of confused messages, what starts out as a worthwhile story involving a woman trying to overcome extreme prejudices in one of America’s elite fighting forces, ends up as a gung-ho hoorah movie with Jane having “manned” up.
Things aren’t helped by the sheer ridiculousness of the treatment meted out to Jane by her superior in training, Master Chief John James Urgayle (Mortensen suitably vile), so much so you would like to think if that sort of stuff goes on then arrests should be made. Daftness also comes by way of the superior officers prancing around training camp in the world’s tightest shorts, one would think they must be on their way to “The Blue Oyster Bar”…
Things are further compounded by the fact that as committed as Moore is in the title role, and she is and gives it her all, one can’t buy into the characterisation because you simply are watching Demi Moore the actress. Shaved head and beefed up she may be, but this is still one of the highest paid actresses of her era, the characterisation thin on the ground with no depth. The political machinations at work barely get time to breath in fact the key mid-point tonal political shift is given short shrift.
Stylisation as one would expect from Scott, is super, as is his control of top draw action sequences. But the cock-eyed view of a woman in a man’s world is hard to swallow, and although it mostly entertains, it’s ultimately a shallow exercise. 5/10