This movie apparently tells a close to true life love story of a young starlet who goes crazy and a silver spoon-bred elitist who ends up having to enlist in the Marines after a drunk driving stunt goes horribly wrong. Val Kilmer plays the tough as nails drill sergeant who, much like the drill sergeants on daytime talk shows, grinds the arrogant young protagonist into something resembling an upstanding young gentleman soldier.
Rachel Leigh Cook plays the schizophrenic pop star that the spoiled teenage marine falls for. She was of course the lead in the formative (at least for me) teen movie "She's All That." It's probably in large measure due to that movie that I still carry quite the candle for her. She's looking great in Stateside, but seems (apparently to some degree by choice) to not have had many big star turns since her breakout role some time ago... interesting.
According to IMDB: "Val Kilmer originally only had a cameo, but his part as a Marine Corps Drill Instructor was extended significantly by Reverge Anselmo after filming had began."
Forgetting for a moment how silly of a name Reverge seems to be (almost like a mix between reverb and revenge), his part STILL isn't very long at all. His last scene takes place when the spoiled kid turned marine is about to graduate boot camp. Staff Sergeant Skeer (Kilmer) gives a rambling speech in which he more or less says that he doesn't have any idea how this world truly works, but that by some stroke of fate he ended married to a Polish girl he met off of base somewhere and now he has to go shopping for a stroller. That's what they're fighting for. Amen.
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