Film

Renaissance Man

1994 · 2h 8m · Comedy · Drama

One man's mission to teach the few, the proud... The impossible!

IMDb

6.2

Rotten Tomatoes

13%

Metacritic

44

An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.

Danny DeVito

Bill Rago

Gregory Hines

Sergeant Cass

James Remar

Captain Tom Murdoch

Ed Begley Jr.

Jack Markin

Lillo Brancato

Soldat Donnie Benitez

Stacey Dash

Soldat Miranda Myers

Kadeem Hardison

Soldat Jamaal Montgomery

Cliff Robertson

Colonel James

Richard T. Jones

Pvt. Jackson Leroy

Khalil Kain

Pvt. Roosevelt Nathaniel Hobbs

Gregory Sporleder

Pvt. Melvin

Peter Simmons

Pvt. Brian Davis, Jr.

Mark Wahlberg

Pvt. Tommy Lee Haywood

Ann Cusack

Bill's Secretary

Jeb Brown

Young Executive #1

Paul Abbott

Young Executive #2

• Penny MarshallDirector · Executive Producer
• Jim BurnsteinScreenplay
• Robert GreenhutProducer
• Andrew G. VajnaProducer
• Buzz FeitshansExecutive Producer
• Adam GreenbergDirector of Photography
• Hans ZimmerOriginal Music Composer
• George BowersEditor
• Battle DavisEditor

Trailer #1

Release date

June 3, 1994

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 8m

Rated

PG-13

Budget

$40,000,000

Revenue

$24,332,324

Genres

Comedy, Drama

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