A Few Good Men

Director: Rob Reiner
Writter: Aaron Sorkin (play and screenplay)
Tom Plays: Lt. Daniel Kaffee
Status: Available on DVD and VHS

Plot:

Defence lawyers, Kaffee (maverick) and Galloway (dutiful) are assigned the case of defending two US
soldiers, accused of murdering a fellow soldier who was deemed to have ‘broken the code’. Kaffee and Galloway soon run into a brick wall (Jessup), who sees himself as a military
‘untouchable.’ The accused claim they were obeying orders (Jessup’s), and that the death was an
accident. .

Goofs & Errors

Continuity: When Kaffee meets Galloway for the first time, Kaffee’s apple switches hands, and the stain on his shirt disappears..

Continuity: When Kaffee meets Galloway for the first time, Kaffee’s second button from the top is unbuttoned when he first walks in. After he sitsdown, it is buttoned..

Errors in geography: After the first day of testimony, the plot segues to Kaffee’s apartment at night by showing a sunset over Washington. However, the shot angle – from the Iwo Jima Memorial looking towards the Washington Monument and the US Capitol – looks to the east and therefore is looking at a
sunrise..

Continuity: After a day of testimony, Kaffee’s briefcase switches hands twice between shots..

Continuity: The rear view mirror in Kaffee’s car when Markinson is in the back seat..

Continuity: In Kaffee’s apartment when Galloway and Weinberg are about to leave, the door is opened
twice..

Revealing mistakes: In the last courtroom scene, after Col. Jessup has struggled with the Marine in an attempt to get at Kaffee, you can clearly see stage makeup smeared on his shirt collar and tie..

Continuity: Col. Jessup’s tie after trying to attack Danny and fixing his uniform.

Continuity: When Captain Ross calls McGuire to the stand in the court-martial, Ross is moving toward the central podium between the counsels’ tables. When Ross is giving McGuire the oath, however, he hasn’t moved toward the podium at all, but is still behind the table..

Continuity: While Kaffe is in his apartment, with Galloway and Weinberg, playing basketball, he throws the ball into the basket, and it does not drop. Then, a minute later, the ball drops twice.

Quotes

Kaffee: Is the colonel’s underwear a matter of national security?

Kaffee: And don’t wear that perfume in court, it wrecks my concentration.
Lt. Commander Jo Ann Galloway: Really!
Kaffee: I was talking to Sam

Kaffee: You ever talk to a client of mine without premission, I’ll have you disbarred. Friends?
Galloway: I had authorization.
Kaffee: From who?
Galloway: Ginny Miller. Louden’s aunt on his mother’s side.
Kaffee: You got authorization from Aunt Ginny?
Galloway: It’s perfectly within my boundaries.;
Kaffee: Does Aunt Ginny have a barn? Maybe we could hold the trial there. I’ll sew the costumes and maybe Uncle Goober can be the judge.

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