Renaissance Man, also known as Army Intelligence, is a 1994 comedy film directed by Penny Marshall and starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines, James Remar, and Cliff Robertson.
Synopsis[]
A divorced advertising executive ends up taking a job as a reading comprehension teacher at a military school where he takes the illiterate students and turns them all into Shakespeare afficionados.
Cast[]
- Danny DeVito as Bill Rago
- Gregory Hines as Sergeant First Class Cass
- James Remar as Captain Tom Murdoch
- Cliff Robertson as Colonel James
- Ed Begley Jr. as Jack Markin
- Lillo Brancato, Jr. as Private Donnie Benitez
- Stacey Dash as Private Miranda Myers
- Kadeem Hardison as Private Jamaal Montgomery
- Richard T. Jones as Corporal Jackson Leroy
- Khalil Kain as Private Roosevelt (Nathaniel) Hobbs
- Peter Simmons as Private Brian Davis, Jr.
- Greg Sporleder as Private Melvin Melvin
- Mark Wahlberg as Private Tommy Lee Haywood
- Alanna Ubach as Emily Rago
- Isabella Hofmann as Staff Sergeant Marie Leighton
- Jenifer Lewis as Mrs. Coleman
Trivia[]
- Mark Wahlberg's film debut.
- Ving Rhames was offered the part of Cass, but turned it down to do Pulp Fiction.