The Great Santini 1979 123movies

Watch: The Great Santini 1979 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1962, the Marine Corps family, the Meechums – parents Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur “Bull” Meechum and Lillian Meechum, and their four children Ben Meechum, Mary Anne Meechum, Karen Meechum and Matthew Meechum – are moving like they do most years, this time to Beaufort, South Carolina. Bull – nicknamed “the Great Santini” – is known as a great pilot, but has gotten into much trouble in the past for his sophomoric behavior. He runs his family much as a military commander, where they are all to obey his orders without question. Everything he does within the family context he reasons is to build character, but in reality everything ends up being about him. The oldest Ben, approaching manhood, is the one of his offspring who has the greatest issue with his father. Ben wants his respect, but isn’t sure if he really loves him. As Ben goes through his senior year in high school, his attempts to play varsity basketball and an incident between black Toomer Smalls – his friend and their cook Arrabella Smalls’ son – and racist Red Petus may forever change the dynamic between father and son..
Plot: As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 6,432
	95% | RottenTomatoes
	64/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 46 Popularity: 3.767 | TMDB

Reviews:

Great first half, then sputters (don’t read if you haven’t seen the movie)
This movie is excellent for its first half: crisply delivered, well-developed, it takes chances that you don’t see in films made today. Characters like Bull Meechum are usually, in contemporary films, greatly exaggerated or treated with utter contempt (the military dad in American Beauty as a typical example). This film delivers all the way through the basketball game episode.

Then it starts to fall apart. The episode with Toomer and Red seems like a mighty big price to pay just to show Bull’s lack of sensitivity and empathy, or anything else it intends to show. Not too long after, Bull himself gets yanked right out of the movie. I really would have appreciated seeing all of these interesting characters resolve their differences – or see things come to a head. I just felt that the movie just quit with 30 minutes to go.

The music was also kind of hit and miss in the last half. For example, when Ben confesses that he prayed for his father’s death, the music is inappropriately creepy. It resolves into sorrow, but the net result was kind of off-putting.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 55 min (115 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Drama
Director Lewis John Carlino
Writer Pat Conroy, Lewis John Carlino, Herman Raucher
Actors Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O’Keefe
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 3 wins & 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm