Name	G.I. Jane
Director	Ridley Scott
Screenplay
Story	Danielle Alexandra
Editing	Pietro Scalia
Starring
Producer
Music	Trevor Jones
Editing	Pietro Scalia
Cinematography	Hugh Johnson
Studio
Distributor	Hollywood Pictures
Budget	$50 million
Gross	$97,169,156
Released
Runtime	124 min
Country
Language	English

''G.I. Jane'' is a 1997 American action film directed by Ridley Scott, produced by Largo Entertainment, Scott Free Productions and Caravan Pictures, distributed by Hollywood Pictures and starring Demi Moore and Viggo Mortensen. The film tells the fictional story of the first woman to undergo training in U.S. Navy Special Warfare Group.

The SEAL/CRT (Combined Reconnaissance Team) course depicted in the film is offered at Coronado Naval Amphibious Base in California, but the film is set in Jacksonville, Florida. O'Neil is hand-picked by U.S. Senator Lillian DeHaven (Anne Bancroft) to go through the rigorous training right along with the men. O'Neil faces sexism and physical challenges as well as the horse-trading by the Senator who selected her for the experimental program.

Moore's performance earned her the 1997 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress.

Plot

A Senate Armed Services Committee interviews a candidate for the position of Secretary of the Navy. Senator Lillian DeHaven (Anne Bancroft) from Texas criticizes the Navy for not being gender-neutral. Behind the curtains, a deal is struck: If women compare favorably with men in a series of test cases, the military will integrate women fully into all branches of the Navy.

The first test is the training course of the (fictional) U.S. Navy Combined Reconnaissance Team (similar to U.S. Navy SEAL BUD/S). Senator DeHaven hand-picks Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore), because she is physically more feminine than the other, more "butch" candidates.

To make the grade, O'Neil must survive a grueling selection program in which almost 70 percent of all candidates wash out, most in the first week ("hell week"). The enigmatic Command Master Chief John James Urgayle (Viggo Mortensen) runs the brutal training program that involves 20-hour days of tasks designed to wear down recruits' physical and mental strength, including pushing giant ship fenders up beach dunes, working through obstacle courses, and hauling landing rafts.

Given a 30-second time allowance in an obstacle course, O'Neil demands to be held to the same standards as the male trainees. Eight weeks into the program, she suffers a vicious beating from the Master Chief during SERE training, during which he tries to convince the other trainees that the presence of a woman will make them more vulnerable in combat. O'Neil fights back and wins his respect and that of the other trainees.

Navy leaders, confident that a woman would quickly drop out, become concerned. Civilian media learn of O'Neil's involvement, and she becomes a sensation known as "G.I. Jane." Soon she must contend with trumped-up charges that she is a lesbian, and is fraternizing with women. O'Neil is told that she will be given a desk job during the investigation and, if cleared, will need to repeat her training. She decides to "ring out" (ringing a bell three times, signaling her voluntary withdrawal from the program) rather than accept a desk job.

It is later revealed that the photo evidence of O'Neil's alleged fraternization came from Senator DeHaven's office. DeHaven never intended for O'Neil to succeed; she used O'Neil as a bargaining chip in trade to prevent military base closings in her home state (Texas). O'Neil threatens to expose DeHaven, who then has the charges voided and O'Neil restored to the program.

The final phase of training (an operational readiness exercise) is interrupted by an emergency situation that requires the SEAL trainees' support. The situation involves a reconnaissance satellite powered by weapons-grade plutonium that fell into the Libyan desert. A team of U.S. Army Rangers is dispatched to retrieve the plutonium, but their evacuation plan fails, and the SEAL trainees are sent to assist the Rangers. The Master Chief's shooting of a Libyan soldier to protect O'Neil leads to a confrontation with a Libyan patrol. During the mission, O'Neil displays a definitive ability in leadership and strategy while rescuing the injured Master Chief, whom she and McCool pull out of an explosives-laden "kill zone." With helicopter gunships delivering the final assault to the defenders, the rescue mission on the Libyan coast is a success.

Upon their return, all those who participated in the mission are accepted to the CRT. Urgayle gives O'Neil his Navy Cross and a book of poetry containing a short poem, "Self-Pity", written by D. H. Lawrence, as acknowledgment of her accomplishment and in gratitude for rescuing him.

Cast

Demi Moore - as Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil

Viggo Mortensen - as Command Master Chief John James Urgayle

Anne Bancroft - as Sen. Lillian DeHaven

Jason Beghe - as Lieutenant Commander Royce

Daniel von Bargen - as Theodore Hayes

Scott Wilson - as Captain Salem

John Michael Higgins - as Chief of Staff

Kevin Gage - as Instructor Max Pyro

David Warshofsky - as Instructor Johns

David Vadim - as Sergeant First Class Cortez

Morris Chestnut - as Lieutenant McCool

Josh Hopkins - as Ensign F. Lee 'Flea' Montgomery

James Caviezel - as 'Slov' Slovnik

Boyd Kestner - as Lieutenant 'Wick' Wickwire

Angel David - as Newberry

Stephen Ramsey - as Stamm

Box Office

The movie was a box office success. G.I. Jane opened at #1 grossing $11,094,241 its opening weekend, playing at a total of 1,945 theaters. In its second weekend the film stayed at #1, grossing $8,183,861 and playing in 1,973 theaters. In the end the film played in a widest release of 2,043 theaters and grossed $48,169,156 domestically, falling slightly short of its $50,000,000 budget. However, the film was a larger box office success worldwide, grossing $97,169,156 total internationally and thus covering the production cost.

Release

Home media

''G.I. Jane'' was released on DVD on April 22, 1998. The only extra feature was a theatrical trailer. It was released on Blu-ray on April 3, 2007 with no extra features aside from trailers for other movies. The film was also released on LaserDisc; this release featured an audio commentary by director Ridley Scott. The film grossed $22,122,300 in rentals.

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birth name	Demi Gene Guynes
birth date	November 11, 1962
birth place	Roswell, New Mexico, U.S.
occupation	Actress
years active	1981–present
spouse	Freddy Moore (1980–1985)Bruce Willis (1987–2000)Ashton Kutcher (2005–present)
children	Rumer Willis, Scout Willis, Tallulah Willis }}

Demi Guynes Kutcher ( ; born November 11, 1962 as Demi Gene Guynes), known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress. After minor roles in film and a role in the soap opera ''General Hospital'', Moore established her career in films such as ''St. Elmo's Fire'' (1985), and in the early 1990s, became one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood with her successes in ''Ghost'' (1990), ''A Few Good Men'' (1992), ''Indecent Proposal'' (1993), and ''Disclosure'' (1994).

Moore took her professional name from her first husband, musician Freddy Moore, and is the mother of three daughters from her marriage to actor Bruce Willis. She has been married to actor Ashton Kutcher since 2005.

Early life

Moore was born Demi Gene Guynes in Roswell, New Mexico. As a child, she had a difficult and unstable home life. Her biological father, Charles Harmon, left her mother Virginia King (November 27, 1943 – July 2, 1998), after a two-month marriage, before Moore was born. As a result, Moore had the surname of her stepfather, Danny Guynes (March 9, 1943 – October 1980 by suicide), on her birth certificate. Danny Guynes frequently changed jobs; as a result, the family moved a total of forty times. Moore has two younger half-brothers: James Craig Harmon (paternal) and Morgan Guynes (maternal, born 1967). Her parents were alcoholics who often fought and beat each other. Moore was cross-eyed as a child and wore an eye patch in an attempt to correct the problem until it was ultimately corrected by two surgeries. She also suffered from kidney dysfunction.

Moore's family settled in Los Angeles in 1976. She attended Fairfax High School in Hollywood, where her schoolmates included Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, bassist Michael Balzary (aka Flea) and actor Timothy Hutton. When Moore was 16, her friend Nastassja Kinski persuaded her to drop out of school to become an actress.

Career

After training with John Casablancas, Demi Moore made her film debut in the 1982 3-D science fiction/horror film, ''Parasite'', which was a hit on the drive-in circuit, ultimately grossing $7 million. However, Moore was not widely known until she played the part of Jackie Templeton on the ABC soap opera, ''General Hospital'', from 1982 to 1983. Moore also had an uncredited cameo at the end of the 1982 spoof ''Young Doctors in Love''.

In the mid-1980s, Moore appeared in the youth-oriented films ''St. Elmo's Fire'', ''Blame It on Rio'' and ''About Last Night...'', and she was often listed as one of the Brat Pack, a name the media dubbed a certain group of top young actors at the time. In 1988, Demi starred in ''The Seventh Sign'' directed by Carl Schultz. After the commercial success of ''Ghost'', Moore was given more prominent roles in ''A Few Good Men'', ''Indecent Proposal'', ''Disclosure'', and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' for which she was the first actress to reach the $10 million salary mark.

thumb|left|150px|Moore at the Huffington Post Pre-Inaugural Ball, 2009.During the early 1990s, she was the highest paid actress in Hollywood. She never surpassed the success of ''Ghost'', and had a string of less successful films like ''The Scarlet Letter'', ''The Juror'', ''Striptease'', and ''G.I. Jane''. Moore's ''Passion of Mind'' co-star Joss Ackland lambasted her by describing her as being "not very bright or talented", although he worked with her again on ''Flawless'' in 2008. At the same time, she produced and starred in a TV mini-series called ''If These Walls Could Talk'', written by Nancy Savoca. A three-part series on abortion, Savoca directed two segments, including the one in which Moore played a single woman in the 1950s seeking a back-alley abortion. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress for that role.

Moore was a founding "celebrity investor" in the Planet Hollywood chain of international theme restaurants (modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe and launched in New York on October 22, 1991) along with Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and then-husband Bruce Willis.

After a break from her acting career, Moore returned to the screen as the villain of the 2003 film ''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle''. In 2006, she appeared in ''Bobby'' which featured an all-star cast, including her husband Ashton Kutcher, although they did not appear in any scenes together. She later starred in the thriller film ''Mr. Brooks'', which was released on June 1, 2007. She appeared in Jon Bon Jovi's longform video "Destination Anywhere" as Janie.

In 2006, Moore became the new face for the Helena Rubinstein brand of cosmetics.

''Vanity Fair'' controversy

In August 1991, Moore appeared nude on the cover of ''Vanity Fair'' under the title ''More Demi Moore''. Annie Leibovitz shot the picture while Moore was seven months pregnant with her daughter Scout LaRue, intending to portray "anti-Hollywood, anti-glitz" attitude. The cover sparked an intense controversy for ''Vanity Fair'' and Demi Moore. It was widely discussed on television, radio, and in newspaper articles. The frankness of Leibovitz's portrayal of a pregnant sex symbol led to divided opinions, ranging from complaints of sexual objectification to celebrations of the photograph as a symbol of empowerment.

The photograph was subject to numerous parodies, including the ''Spy'' magazine version, which placed Moore's then husband Bruce Willis' head on her body. In ''Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp.'', Leibovitz sued over one parody featuring Leslie Nielsen, made to promote the 1994 film ''Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult''. In the parody, the model's body was attached to what is described as "the guilty and smirking face" of Nielsen. The teaser said "Due this March". The case was dismissed in 1996 because the parody relied "for its comic effect on the contrast between the original". In November 2009, the Moroccan magazine ''Femmes du Maroc'' emulated the infamous pose with Moroccan news reporter Nadia Larguet, causing controversy in the majority Muslim nation. In August 1992, Moore would again appear nude on the cover of ''Vanity Fair'', modeling for the world's leading body painting artist, Joanne Gair in ''Demi's Birthday Suit''. The painting is widely considered to be the best-known example of modern body painting artwork.

Personal life

She married singer Freddy Moore in 1980 at the age of 17, retaining his surname. In 1987, Moore met and married actor Bruce Willis. They had three daughters together: Rumer Glenn Willis (born August 16, 1988), Scout LaRue Willis (born July 20, 1991), and Tallulah Belle Willis (born February 3, 1994). Moore and Willis divorced in 2000.

In 2005, Moore wed actor Ashton Kutcher after dating for two years.

Moore's primary residence is in Hailey, Idaho, near the famous Sun Valley resort, although she spends much time in the Los Angeles area with Kutcher. She also owns a waterfront mansion on Sebago Lake, Maine. She is a practicing follower of the Philip Berg's Kabbalah Centre religion, and initiated Kutcher into the faith, having said that she "didn’t grow up Jewish, but ... would say that [she has] been more exposed to the deeper meanings of particular rituals than any of [her] friends that did." Contrary to popular belief, Moore claims she has never been a raw foodist and dispelled the vegan rumors by eating a hamburger in a recent Mario Testino photo shoot.

Moore legally changed her last name to Kutcher two years after marrying Kutcher. However, she continues to use Moore in her professional life. According to the ''New York Times'', Moore is "the world's most high-profile doll collector," and among her favorites is the Gene Marshall fashion doll.

Filmography

! Year	! Film	! Role	! Notes
1981	''Choices''	Corri
1982		Patricia Welles
1983	''Young Doctors in Love''	New Intern	Uncredited
	''No Small Affair''	Laura Victor
''Blame It on Rio	Nicole 'Nikki' Hollis
1985		Jules
		Karen Simmons
''One Crazy Summer''	Cassandra Eldridge
''About Last Night...''	Debbie
	''The Seventh Sign''	Abby Quinn
''The New Homeowner's Guide to Happiness''		Short film
1989		Molly
1990		Molly Jensen	Saturn Award for Best ActressNominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
	''The Butcher's Wife''	Marina Lemke
''Mortal Thoughts''	Cynthia Kellogg
	Diane Lightson
1992		LCDR JoAnne Galloway
1993	''Indecent Proposal''	Diana Murphy
1994		Meredith Johnson	Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable FemaleNominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
		older Samantha
	Hester Prynne	Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Female
	''Beavis and Butt-head Do America''	Dallas Grimes (voice)
	Erin Grant
''The Juror''	Annie Laird
	''Deconstructing Harry''	Helen/Harry's Character
''G.I. Jane''	LT Jordan O'Neil	Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Fight with Viggo Mortensen
''Destination Anywhere: The Film''	Jenny	Short film
2000	''Passion of Mind''	Martha Marie/'Marty' Talridge
2002	''The Hunchback of Notre Dame II''		''Straight-to-DVD''Nomination – "Best Animated Character Performance" at the DVD Exclusive Awards
2003	''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle''	Madison Lee	Nomination – MTV Movie Award for Best VillainNomination – "Sexiest She-Villain" (Villana más Sexy) at the MTV Movie Awards México
	''Half Light''	Rachel Carlson	Limited release.
	Virginia Fallon	Hollywood Film Award for "Ensemble of the year" at the Hollywood Film FestivalNominated – "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture" at the 13th Screen Actors Guild Awards
		Laura Quinn	Limited release
''Mr. Brooks''	Detective Tracy Atwood
		Director	Directorial debut
		Laura
''The Joneses''	Kate Jones
	Alexandra
	''Margin Call''	Sarah Robertson
	Annie	''Post-Production''

Television

! Year	! Title	! Role	! Notes
1982–83	''General Hospital''	Jackie Templeton
		Holly Trumbull	1 episode
''Bedroom''	Nancy	Comedy series
1989		Woman in Elevator	Uncredited
1990		Cathy Marno	1 episode, "Dead Right"
1991	''Master Ninja''	Holly Trumbull	TV movie
1996	''If These Walls Could Talk''	Claire Donnelly
1997		The Sample Lady	1 episode "The Puppy Episode: Part 2"
2003	''Will and Grace''	Sissy (The Babysitter)	Sitcom

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