A Few Good Men: Walkin’, Talkin’ & Aaron Sorkin

Can you handle the truth? This episode we’re talking fast and furiously about A Few Good Men, Rob Reiner’s 1992 military legal drama. Gather your legal files and grab your softball bat, it’s time for the ultimate courtroom showdown.

Molly and Chloe take the stand to discuss how screenwriter Aaron Sorkin set the standard for walkin’ and talkin’ screen dialogue and testify on Tom Cruise’s livewire performance as hotshot lawyer Lt Daniel Kaffee and Jack Nicholson’s legendary, scene-stealing monologue. We also cross-examine the film’s more complicated moral themes and judge whether Demi Moore’s Joanne Galloway gets a raw deal as the only woman on the team. Plus, we remember the late Rob Reiner’s incredible run of classic films in the 1980s and 1990s.

Lastly, we bang the gavel on the film’s most 90s details and best lines, and make the case for the best paperwork dramas to watch next.

Read Todd McCarthy’s original Variety review from 1992.

The interview with Rob Reiner Molly refers to is episode 702 of WTF with Marc Maron.

For the full story on what’s been going on in Guantanamo Bay since the 1990s, listen to Serial’s fourth season here.

Chloe’s Letterboxd list of paperwork movies can be found here.

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