Taps

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Taps ★★½ 1981 (PG)

Military academy students led by Hutton are so true totheir school they lay siege to it to keep itfrom being closed. An antiwar moralityplay about excesses of zeal and patriotism. Predictable but impressive. 126m/CVHS, DVD . Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise, Giancarlo Esposito, Evan Handler, Brendan Ward, John P. Navin Jr., Earl Hindman; D: Harold Becker; W: Darryl-Ponicsan, Robert Mark Kamen; C: Owen Roizman;M: Maurice Jarre.

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