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Drama

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During the Vietnam War, four fresh-faced Army recruits are stuck waiting for their assignments in a vacant barracks. The pressures of war loom large, and before long the soldiers, who differ wildly in terms of temperament, race and sexual orientation, are at each other's throats. Can the soldiers -- including Carlyle (Michael Wright), an unpredictable hot head, and Richie (Mitchell Lichtenstein), an effeminate homosexual -- overcome their fits of rage, racism and homophobia?

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Andrew Schenker

Slant Magazine

Jan 4, 2010

3/4

What elevates the film above a dated topical discussion is Altman's imagining of the army barracks as a hothouse environment where tensions and fears play out in oddly manic outbursts%u2014and his direction of his actors accordingly.

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

Aug 30, 2004

2/5

It goes partway toward realizing the full effect of a stage play as a film, then botches the job by the overabundant use of film techniques, which dismember what should be an ensemble performance.

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Jan 1, 2000

Sure it's searing and intense, but so is a microwave oven.

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Michael Bronski

Gay Community News (Boston)

Aug 25, 2022

Streamers frightens but it does not move, it startles without touching us and finally it goads us into reacting without deepening our understanding.

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MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

Jul 6, 2010

[I]t's the prospect of getting your mental boat rocked in an unexpected direction that is the most provocative reason to check this out. Attitudes can change, it seems, sometimes even for the better. That's an optimistic notion for a pessimistic time.

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Apr 2, 2010

M*A*S*H* stripped from its wise-guy veneer

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Synopsis

During the Vietnam War, four fresh-faced Army recruits are stuck waiting for their assignments in a vacant barracks. The pressures of war loom large, and before long the soldiers, who differ wildly in terms of temperament, race and sexual orientation, are at each other's throats. Can the soldiers -- including Carlyle (Michael Wright), an unpredictable hot head, and Richie (Mitchell Lichtenstein), an effeminate homosexual -- overcome their fits of rage, racism and homophobia?

Director: Robert Altman
Producer: Robert Altman, Nick J. Mileti
Screenwriter: David Rabe
Production Co: Streamers International
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 4, 2019
Runtime: 1h 58m

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