Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Danny DeVitoBill Rago
- Gregory HinesSergeant Cass
- James RemarCaptain Tom Murdoch
- Ed Begley Jr.Jack Markin
- Lillo BrancatoSoldat Donnie Benitez
- Stacey DashSoldat Miranda Myers
- Kadeem HardisonSoldat Jamaal Montgomery
- Cliff RobertsonColonel James
- Richard T. JonesPvt. Jackson Leroy
- Khalil KainPvt. Roosevelt Nathaniel Hobbs
Recommendations
- 63
TV Guide Magazine
Renaissance Man is an exceptionally unoriginal comedy with a heart-tugging streak as big as Fort Bragg, but it succeeds perfectly well on its own unambitious terms. - 60
The New York Times
Inherently condescending, and finally awash in warm-bath sentimentality, this setup never goes out of style. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
The big underachiever turns out to be DeVito, who is incapable of exhibiting believable warmth and complexity, or, indeed, of playing anyone who is not a cartoon. - 50
ReelViews
Renaissance Man is a movie of moments, too many of which are mediocre or unfulfilling. - 50
Washington Post
This is not brilliant emotional manipulation. - 40
Austin Chronicle
From the ad campaign, we pretty much know how things are going to turn out, and her pedestrian attempts at subplots are even more transparent than those in "Awakenings." - 40
Empire
This is a feel good movie which is too mechanically put together to make you feel anything. - 40
Time
Warm-hearted humanism is glopped all over Renaissance Man in the hopes that we won't notice that the story makes no sense.
