DVD Movie Rating for: The General's Daughter

3 out of 5 stars

Movie Plot of: The General's Daughter

The naked corpse of Captain Elisabeth Campbell, daughter of Lieutenant General "Fighting Joe" Campbell, is found staked out on the urban warfare range of Fort MacCallum. Army CID detectives and ex-lovers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill are called in to investigate, and find themselves wrapped up in a maelstrom of sexual impropriety and misguided face-saving.

When a general's daughter (Leslie Stefanson), an army captain in psychological operations, is found murdered, two warrant officers (John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe) are brought in to investigate. The young woman was staked down with tent poles, strangled, and presumably raped. But what the investigators find is even more bizarre, relating back to her days at West Point and involving the general (James Cromwell) himself and his aide (Clarence Williams III). The daughter's one confidant (James Woods) also ends up as an apparent suicide and is assumed to be the culprit. Cover-ups and sexual scandals rampage throughout the film. Timothy Hutton appears as on an on-base officer.

DVD Production Details of: The General's Daughter

Starring: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe

Director: Simon West

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby

Studio: Paramount Studio

DVD Release Date: December 14, 1999
DVD Features:
Commentary by director Simon West

Theatrical trailer(s)

4 deleted scenes including an alternate ending and two romantically charged scenes between Travolta and Stowe

Behind-the-Scenes Featurette with Interviews (20 min.)

2 Theatrical Trailers

Widescreen anamorphic format

DVD Easter Eggs

Cast of the movie: The General's Daughter

• John Travolta .... Warr. Off. Paul Brenner/Sgt. Frank White
• Madeleine Stowe .... Warr. Off. Sara Sunhill
• James Cromwell .... Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell
• Timothy Hutton .... Col. William Kent
• Leslie Stefanson .... Capt. Elisabeth Campbell
• Daniel von Bargen .... Police Chief Yardley
• Clarence Williams III .... Col. George Fowler
• James Woods.... Col. Robert Moore
• Peter Weireter .... Belling
• Mark Boone Junior .... Dalbert Elkins
• John Beasley .... Col. Donald Slesinger
• Boyd Kestner .... Capt. Jake Elby
• Brad Beyer .... Capt. Bransford
• John Benjamin Hickey .... Capt. Goodson
• Rick Dial .... Cal Seivers

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Reviews of the movie: The General's Daughter

When John Travolta first opens his mouth during the opening credits of The General's Daughter and speaks in a terrible Southern cracker drawl, one briefly hopes that the movie will turn out to be just as hilariously bad. Unfortunately, the accent is soon revealed to be part of a disguise, and the movie is just as quickly unveiled as a clumsy, run-of-the-mill potboiler. A female officer is discovered strangled and tied to the ground; she's the title character, and because of the general's political ambitions, the mystery of who did it and why has to be wrapped up in 36 hours by Travolta and fellow CID officer Madeleine Stowe (Last of the Mohicans, 12 Monkeys). Sexual violence and lurid S&M have been thrown in to shore up the incomprehensible plot, but that only adds to the queasy atmosphere. The supporting actors--an impressive collection including James Woods (Salvador), Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People), and James Cromwell (Babe, L.A. Confidential)--don't embarrass themselves, but even they can't make sense of their blustering, macho dialogue. It's amazing that screenwriter William Goldman (who wrote such great and genuinely thrilling films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Man, All the President's Men, and Misery) left his name attached to this script; there's no sign of his usual skill and intelligence. Madeleine Stowe, a graceful presence in any film, is equally wasted. Directed with a lot of empty flash by Simon West (Con Air)

I renamed this one "The General Agenda"
Here we have another Hollywood attempt to brainwash the sheeple....and I would imagine once again they will be successful. I'll start off by saying I enjoyed the film, even though it was pretty corny. Travolta is always fun in this style of picture. My objection was the less than subtle way the viewer was bombarded with politically correct poppycock in the form of entertainment. One example was Paul Brenner's bringing a gift to a female officer. The haughty "lady" brushed the man's generosity off as "sexist". What happened to boy meets girl? Another illustration is the tenderness Brenner exhibited when dealing with the 2 homosexuals. What rot: God considers these people to be an abomination. Then there was the instance of Sara Sunhill parading arrogantly into an all male dressing room with the announcement "woman aboard" or some such statement. It was a tad late for some of the boys to cover up. Can't imagine that playing in reverse without screams of horror from the ladies - and rightly so. Later in this same scene when a group of men are addressed by Ms. Sunhill, they are presented as grinning, horny idiots with the manners of goats. In my opinion this movie was rife with reverse sexism and p.c. twaddle....as are many others, unfortunately. I read plenty of comments decrying the deplorable conditions of the downtrodden females in fatigues: many knuckles are ground into eye sockets as the tears flow: multitudinous hankies are dampened over the fate

of these poor souls, as well as that of the 2 decent, loving, sexual perverts. The sorry part in all this is that the producers bothered little in disguising their intolerance.