A Few Good Men: How “You Can’t Handle the Truth” Became America’s Favorite Lie
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The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | Welcome back to the Bullwork Movie Club here on YouTube and Bullwark Plus. |
| 0:24.3 | Very excited to be talking with my movie friends, Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. |
| 0:29.0 | Last, we're here today to discuss a classic, a classic of American cinema, A Few Good Men. |
| 0:37.3 | Before we get started, I just want to relay some of |
| 0:39.9 | the backstory of this movie because it's funny and vaguely infuriating. Aaron Sorkin, |
| 0:46.1 | playwright, sits down in between shifts at his waiter job and writes this script down, |
| 0:52.2 | writes the script for the play, just on cocktail |
| 0:55.5 | napkins, goes home, types it all up. Then he writes the movie, it's his first play. Before the |
| 1:01.5 | play is even produced, it gets optioned to be a screenplay. It bounces around for a couple years, |
| 1:08.2 | winds up with Tom Cruise at almost the height of his movie star |
| 1:12.1 | powers. Like he goes into a lull after a little bit after this and then comes back strong. |
| 1:16.5 | And Jack Nicholson very much at the height of his powers ends up grossing, I think it was some |
| 1:22.2 | insane. It was like $260 million worldwide or something like that, which is about $600 million |
| 1:27.0 | in today's money. |
| 1:28.8 | Aaron Sorkin, good for him. Good for him. That's all I have to say about that. |
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