Taps

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DVD Release Date:

03/05/2002

Run Time:

118min.

Starring:

George C. Scott , Timothy Hutton , Ronny Cox , Sean Penn , Tom Cruise

Director(s):

Harold Becker

Genre(s):

Action,Drama

Plot: Devery Freeman's novel Father Sky was the inspiration for the far-fetched but convincingly acted and directed Taps. When an exclusive military school is threatened with demolition by a rapacious real-estate company, the students, headed by Timothy ... Read More

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