Other Titles • The Great Santini • The Ace (1979) • The Gift of Fury (1979)
Synopses for The Great Santini (1979)
1.
Duvall gives an amazing performance as a Marine fighter pilot who funnels his frustrated desire to fight into creating a tip-top battalion out of his own emotionally battered family. His adolescent son suffers the most from the Colonel's inability to express love through anything but discipline. This critically acclaimed movie has become a touchstone for dysfunctional families and is based on the Pat Conroy novel.
(15 votes)
2.
Bull Meechum is a hard case, a fighter pilot so skilled that he's called "The Great Santini." But now it's peacetime 1962. And more at home playing "top gun" in the cockpit than father in his living room, he's become that most useless figure: a warrior without a war.
Based on Pat Conroy's autobiographical bestseller, the film gathers other powerful actors alongside Duvall - fellow Oscar contender Michael O'Keefe, Blythe Danner and Lisa Jane Persky - as family members showing corage under fire as Meechum battles his demons. Their work makes the Great Santini soar.
(15 votes)
Mooviees.com is not the official site for this film.
All editorial views and opinions expressed here are for entertainment purposes only.
Movie Database
In Theaters
