The General's Daughter (film)
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| Directed by | Simon West |
| Produced by | Mace Neufeld |
| Written by |
Christopher Bertolini William Goldman Nelson DeMille |
| Based on | The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille |
| Starring |
John Travolta Madeleine Stowe James Cromwell Timothy Hutton Leslie Stefanson Clarence Williams III and James Woods |
| Music by | Carter Burwell |
| Cinematography | Peter Menzies Jr. |
| Edited by | Glen Scantlebury |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $95 million |
| Box office | $149,705,852 |
The General's Daughter is a 1999 American crime film directed by Simon West starring John Travolta. The plot concerns the mysterious death of the daughter of a prominent general. The film is based on the 1992 novel by the same name by Nelson DeMille.
Chief Warrant Officer Four Paul Brenner (John Travolta), a Vietnam War veteran of the 196th LIB, is in Georgia, masquerading as First Sergeant Frank White, at a local Army base, to broker an illegal arms trade with a self-proclaimed freedom fighter. Brenner is actually an undercover agent of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command.
While on the base, his car gets a flat tire. He is on the side of the road trying to remove the wheel nuts with a small pair of pliers and not having much success when a pretty young officer arrives and helps him change the spare with her cross brace (lug wrench). The officer is Captain Elisabeth Campbell (Leslie Stefanson), the base commanding general's daughter and herself an Army captain in psychological operations. The next evening, she is found murdered. Brenner and another warrant officer, CW2 Sara Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe), who is also a rape specialist, are brought in to investigate. At the scene, the base Provost Marshal, Colonel William Kent (Timothy Hutton) has secured the area. He also advises Captain Campbell's father, Lieutenant General Joseph "Fighting Joe" Campbell (James Cromwell), a highly respected and very popular general and he is running for Vice-Presidency.
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