Taps

Taps is a 1981 dramatic film, starring Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, George C. Scott, and then up and comers Tom Cruise, and Sean Penn. Hutton was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1982 for his role in the film. The film was directed by Harold Becker. The screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen, James Lineberger and Darryl Ponicsan is based on the novel Father Sky by Devery Freeman. The original music score is composed by Maurice Jarre. The film receive... more

Taps is a 1981 dramatic film, starring Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, George C. Scott, and then up and comers Tom Cruise, and Sean Penn. Hutton was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1982 for his role in the film. The film was directed by Harold Becker. The screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen, James Lineberger and Darryl Ponicsan is based on the novel Father Sky by Devery Freeman. The original music score is composed by Maurice Jarre. The film received a score of 77% on the website RottenTomatoes.com and 3 stars (out of four) from film critic Roger Ebert, who compared it to the classic novel Lord of the Flies (1954). The film follows a group of military school students who decide to take over their school in order to save it from closing. The story takes place at Bunker Hill, a fictional military academy with a long-standing tradition of training young men of middle school and high school ages for military service. When the story opens, a young cadet, Brian Moreland (Timothy Hutton), is... less