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Rules of Engagement is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Friedkin released in USA on 7 april 2000 with Tommy Lee Jones
Rules of Engagement (2000)
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Add to a movie listRules of Engagement is a 2000 American mystery and war-drama film directed by William Friedkin and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after men under Childers' orders kill a large number of civilians outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen.
James Webb, to whom the story is credited, is a US Naval Academy graduate and former U.S. Marine combat officer who was awarded the Navy Cross in Vietnam as a Lieutenant platoon commander, a lawyer and U.S. Secretary of the Navy. Webb later served as a U.S. Senator from Virginia.
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Operation Kingfisher, a disastrous American advance in the Vietnam War has 2nd Lt. Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) executing an unarmed prisoner in order to intimidate a Vietnam People's Army officer into calling off an ambush of U.S. Marines. His act thereby saves the life of wounded 2nd Lt. Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones).Actors
Tommy Lee Jones
(Col. Hayes Lawrence "Hodge" Hodges II)
Samuel L. Jackson
(Col. Terry L. Childers)
Guy Pearce
(Maj. Mark Biggs)
Ben Kingsley
(Ambassador Mourain)
Bruce Greenwood
(National Security Advisor Bill Sokal)
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