RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 2000
• Genre: Action, Drama, Suspense/Thriller, War
• Plot: A Hero Should Never Have To Stand Alone; ; Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson deliver electrifying performances in this 'tense, superbly-directed and top-drawer drama'* about what happens when the rules that command a soldier become the rules that condemn him.; ; Colonel Terry Childers (Jackson) is a patriot and war hero. But when a peacekeeping mission he leads in Yemen goes terribly wrong, he finds himself facing a court martial. Accused of breaking rules of engagement by killing unarmed civilians, Childers' only hope of vindication rests with comrade-in-arms Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a military lawyer of questionable abilities. Together they face the battle of their lives.; ; Directed by Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist) and co-starring Guy Pearce, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer and Academy Award®-winner Ben Kingsley, Rules Of Engagement is 'a magnificent movie you must see.'**
• Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer, Blair Underwood, Philip Baker Hall, Dale Dye, Amidou, Mark Feuerstein, Richard McGonagle, Baoan Coleman, Nicky Katt, Ryan Hurst, Gordon Clapp, Hayden Tank, Jimmy Abounouom, William Gibson, Tuan Tran, John Speredakos, Scott Alan Smith, Jihane Kortobi, David Lewis Hays, Peter Tran, Bonnie Johnson, Jason C. West, Mohamed Attifi, Zouheir Mohamed, Chris Ufland, Thom Barry, Kevin Cooney, Helen Manning, David Graf, Conrad Bachmann, Aziz Assimi, Robert Pentz Jr., Laird Macintosh, Baouyen C. Bruyere, Steven M. Gagnon, Richard Whiten, Tom Knickerbocker, Terry Bozeman, Mary Wickliffe, Jody Wood, Elayn J. Taylor, Todd Kimsey, Stephen Ramsey, G. Gordon Liddy, Mike Stokey, Jack Galle, John Barnett, Mike Bedmiston, Michael Gerald, Freddie Joe Farnsworth, Dennis Fitzgerald, Jim Boensch, Brian Maynard, Joseph Aguilar, Johnny Alonso, Benjamin Busch, Dani Englander, Lawrence Larsen, Christopher Marquez, LauraLee O'Shell, Nate Panning, Chuck Paris, Marc Kenneth Robinson, Robert Shepherd, Michael John Smith, André B. Walker, William Friedkin, Jim Webb, Stephen Gaghan, Scott Rudin, Richard D. Zanuck, William A. Fraker, Nicola Pecorini, Augie Hess, Mark Isham
• Director: William Friedkin
• Runtime: 2:07
• Company: Seven Arts Pictures, Paramount Pictures
• Media Format: Movie