Tigerland (2000)

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Studio: Regency Enterprises
Studio: 20th Century Fox International
Rating: R
Release Date: Oct 6, 2000
Running Time: 109 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: Germany
Country Of Origin: Australia
synopsis
In the 1971, at an Army training camp in Louisiana, Roland Bozz, a rebellious yet promising young recruit just released from the base stockade, seeks to avoid a trip to Vietnam and attempts to convince all the other draftees in his company to follow his lead in getting themselves ejected from the Army. But nothing Bozz does can save himself or the others, including Paxton, a writer in the making, or the ambitious Miter and pugilistic Wilson, from Tigerland, a tractless wilderness designated by the army for jungle combat simulation and their last stop before the war zone.
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Cantwell
Wilson
Captain Saunders
Sergeant Landers
Sergeant Thomas
Sergeant Oakes
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December 10, 2000
At Fort Polk, Louisiana, in 1971, soldiers undergo advanced infantry training at a facility -- they call it Tigerland -- designed to look, feel, smell and scare like Vietnam. That's the setting for a new movie from director Joel Schumacher that, unlike the holy trinity of Oscar-type Nam movies -- Platoon, Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter -- steers clear of Southeast Asia. Like the first half of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Tigerland focuses on training men to kill right in their own… Continued