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Buffalo Soldiers Director: Gregor Jordan Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris

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  • DVD Release Date: 01/13/2004
  • Original Release: 2001
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 21,342

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Closed Caption; Commentary with director Gregor Jordan; "Beyond the Iron Curtain" behind-the-scenes featurette; "Anatomy of a Scene" featurette

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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Opening Credits: The Dull Fight [7:36]
2. U.S. Army's Finest [7:14]
3. Mission Complete? [7:52]
4. Prime Merchandise [5:31]
5. Trouble With Top [7:22]
6. A New Roommate [3:08]
7. It it Worth It? [4:52]
8. Target Practice [6:03]
9. Dueling Boars [9:32]
10. Terrible Timing [5:59]
11. Talking Business [5:14]
12. A Brief Exercise [4:53]
13. Time to Cook [3:51]
14. Fighting Fears [5:06]
15. Busted [5:47]
16. Boiling Point [4:14]
17. End Credits [4:20]

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Australian director Gregor Jordan makes his sophomore effort with this tale about crooked U.S. soldiers based in Germany during the waning days of the cold war. Special Fourth Class soldier Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) guards against the Soviets while on duty, and rips off the U.S. military while off duty. Handsome, calculating, and thoroughly amoral, Elwood runs a profitable black-market business that operates just below the official radar. He and his associates make drugs to sell to his fellow GIs; steal Army supplies, selling them to a German connection; and a host of other dirty deeds. One day, he and his gang uncover some loot that will land them some real money -- high-tech military weaponry. As they try to quietly offload the stuff, the new sergeant, Robert K. Lee (Scott Glenn), catches on to Elwood's nefarious deeds and sets out to put him out of businesses. Elwood, in turn, catches on to the fact that Lee has a very attractive daughter (Anna Paquin) and sets out to bed her. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

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Buffalo Soldiersby Anonymous

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September 26, 2006: I thought this movie was excellent. I enjoyed the dark comedy, and the portrayal of a likeable main character, without him being a typical hero, or hero at all, really. Even if you don't particularly like the way the military is depicted, the acting is phenomenal, especially on the part of Joaquin Phoenix. I also enjoyed the irony throughout the film.

Buffalo Soldiersby Anonymous

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December 15, 2005: If this movie was a little funnier, you could watch it like "Stripes", knowing it was a farce. However, placing it in historical perspective and adding social commentary transforms it into a very, very bad insult to the military. I grew up on bases in Germany at the time depicted in this movie, and am extremely insulted and upset by the portrayal of people similar to my parents, my siblings who were active-duty at the time, and the soldiers serving with them. Gee, what's next? -- a portrayal of the founding fathers as drunken, racist crackers? Maybe something about gay white-trash cowboys oh, I guess that's "Bareback Mountain". I'm really upset that this movie seeks to show officers as inept, NCOs as corrupt, and enlisted personnel as criminal, and blatantly claims that it is depicting dramatized reality. Had they attempted to show this as a worst-case scenario, I would not react like this. But this movie genuinely tries to convey the impression that, "that the way it is".


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