470 A FEW GOOD MEN Part 1 - The Season of Rob Reiner

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2026

⏱️ 150 minutes

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On this week's episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha continue their Season of Rob Reiner with part 1 of their deep dive and exploration of 1992's A FEW GOOD MEN. An American legal drama film, produced and directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin, who adapted his 1989 play. It stars an ensemble cast including Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Pollak, J. T. Walsh, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Kiefer Sutherland. The plot follows the court-martial of two U.S. Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine and the tribulations of their lawyers as they prepare a case. It grossed $243 million on a budget of $40 million. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Jack Nicholson, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing. Steve and John go thru the movie scene by scene and break down the direction, acting, storylines, cinematography, score, themes, message, philosophical debates and more.

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0:00.0	And now I'm thinking, Colonel Markinson, that your suggestion of transferring Santiago while expeditious and certainly painless might not be in a manner of speaking the American way.
0:16.0	Santiago stays where he is. We're going to train the lad.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome once again to the Cinephiles, where we are continuing our season of
0:34.6	Rob Reiner.
0:35.3	My name is Steve Morris.
0:36.3	I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California.
0:39.8	Hello, everyone. My name is John Rokam, a writer-producer, host, and voiceover artist down here in San Diego,
0:45.8	California, and very excited to be continuing our season of Rob Reiner, Steve, with this film,
0:51.4	which many of our listeners have been asking us to tackle and the time has come.
0:56.9	It's definitely the time in more ways than one, because boy, as I'm watching this movie,
1:01.4	I found a whole bunch of stuff that relates to things we're talking about today.
1:06.9	But we should say that if you want to support the cinefiles, and in fact, if you want the
1:11.1	cinefiles to keep being produced, the best way to help us out is by going to patreon.com
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1:21.7	as well as our cinefiles shorts.
1:23.7	And, of course, on Patreon, you can also join our Cineophiles Advisory Board, where we had a fantastic
1:29.1	meeting plotting the future of the Cineophiles just a few days ago. Yeah, and they were very excited
1:35.1	for us to be tackling the film we're tackling today. And that's another way you can make a big
1:39.2	change in the direction of the show sometimes is coming onto the advisory board and getting your voice heard.
1:46.0	Another way you can help us and support us, of course, is if you're listening to us on the
1:49.9	ad-supported version of the show and you hear some products or services that you want to try,
1:56.6	then we would encourage you to try them and to use our code, usually cinephiles or the cinephiles,
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