Renaissance Man

1994 "One Man's Mission To Teach The Few, The Proud... The Impossible!"
6.2| 2h8m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 03 June 1994 Released
Producted By: Cinergi Pictures
Country: United States of America
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An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.

Genre

Drama, Comedy

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Director

Penny Marshall

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Cinergi Pictures

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Renaissance Man Audience Reviews

Diagonaldi Very well executed
Nonureva Really Surprised!
Pluskylang Great Film overall
Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
merryclingen-937-113874 I recently saw Renaissance Man for the first time and loved it! I am a big fan of Penny Marshall's films and wish she would direct more often. She has a wonderful vision that can only come from a woman, yet the films are not specifically feminist. She just seems to direct from her heart and let the chips fall where they may. Her movies make me laugh, cry and cheer like a modern day Frank Capra, with a more realistic eye. Renaissance Man casts Danny DeVito as a curmudgeonly "Mary Poppins" who shows up at a military base, and changes lives with a "Spoonful of Shakespeare." Danny DeVito gives a wonderful performance as an unemployed advertising executive who winds up teaching army recruits English. He soon discovers they can relate to Shakespeare through Hamlet, and eventually takes them to see a performance of Henry V. A very moving moment takes place when a recruit recites the "Band of Brothers/Saint Crispin's Day speech to his Sargent. I recommend this film to both men and women, even if they usually don't care for military films.
goku_vliu This movie gives us a glimpse of Shakespeare and a glimpse of life in the army. Some people say that only brainless thugs join the army, but thats not true and this movie proves it. Anyways in this movie Danny Devito(aka Bill Rago) loses his job of advertising and he is assigned to teach a group of soldiers in the army training camp. Although it seems impossible to shove education into their brains, at the end of the movie the soldiers realize that they earned the most precious treasure of all, EDUCATION. I've seen this movie for over twenty times and believe me i have never been bored of it. This movie has a mixture of happiness, comedy and a bit of sadness. For those people who haven't seen this movie yet, go to your local DVD store and buy the DVD.
srobi280 Let me start off by saying that this movie is miss-marketed as a comedy. As a comedy, this movie is, at best, mediocre. Sure, there are some funny moments, but it isn't nearly as hilarious as it claims to be. However, what this movie lacks in comedy, it makes up for with it's other qualities. This is a warm, fuzzy, feel-good movie with a lot of wisdom in it. The character development is excellent and we really get to like the characters. The bond between DeVito and his students is strong. This movie is very touching, with a few funny moments in-between. Sure, there are some corny scenes (the rap scene) but hey, every teacher has their own way of making their students understand their material, right? I would recommend this movie, although not as a comedy.
kscotay What I don't like...Hollywood took such literary license with this movie, I had to comment. If this squad is "double-d", I think that casting services need to be fired... Hobbs is obviously no dummy, Melvin has a sleep disorder, Leroy was a jock but he's no dummy....Why are the dd's allowed to go off-base during their basic training. When they go off the base, they're in their OD (olive drabs) uniforms which the military frowns on, but then they also went to Stratford Ontario from Michigan (International Border) into Canada (the Bluewater Bridge joining Port Huron and Sarnia). Devito is a little too unmilitary and generally a jerk, but gets the girl in the end. When did they have the time to put the rap ditty together.What I did like... It's not totally mindless entertainment, and there's some funny scenes or one-liners so it's not a total wash.