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It's an HBO original film from years back. I thought of it tonight for some reason--probably seeing Cary Elwes when I tuned in for the end of "The Princess Bride" on Bravo. (Another great film, but that's beside the point...)
Based on a true story, Cary Elwes plays an up-and-coming Air Force officer who's assigned to supervise the testing of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the Army's new troop carrier. Once he starts digging past the surface, what he finds prompts him to go up against the brass at the Pentagon and their revolving-door relationship with the defense contractors.
Kelsey Grammar is the general trying to push the Bradley through, and who later has to account for his department's various "successes" before the House Armed Services Committee. The West Wing's Richard Schiff plays the former head of the Bradley program, who neatly sums up the higher-ups' attitude toward whistleblowers: "If the Pentagon had their choice of busting us or nailing a Soviet spy, they would choose us in a heartbeat."
It's a great movie, one that manages to be incredibly comical while still very serious, bringing home the level of corruption that exists in the upper eschelons of the military and their civilian counterparts, along with the real-world effects on the people who go into combat with these weapons.
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