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6 April 1970 (Brazil) moreTagline:
M*A*S*H Hysteria morePlot:
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. Another 14 wins & 19 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(18 articles)
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M*A*S*H - Blu-ray Review
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Outrageous, in-your-face black humor more (180 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Donald Sutherland | ... | Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce | |
| Elliott Gould | ... | Capt. John Francis Xavier 'Trapper' McIntyre | |
| Tom Skerritt | ... | Capt. Augustus 'Duke' Forrest | |
| Sally Kellerman | ... | Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan | |
| Robert Duvall | ... | Maj. Frank Marion 'Ferret Face' Burns | |
| Roger Bowen | ... | Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake | |
| Rene Auberjonois | ... | Lt. Father Francis John Patrick Mulcahy | |
| David Arkin | ... | SSgt. Wade Douglas Vollmer | |
| Jo Ann Pflug | ... | Lt. Maria 'Dish' Schneider | |
| Gary Burghoff | ... | Corporal Walter Eugene O'Reilly | |
| Fred Williamson | ... | Capt. Oliver Harmon 'Spearchucker' Jones | |
| Michael Murphy | ... | Capt. Ezekiel 'Me Lai' Marston IV | |
| Indus Arthur | ... | Lt. Leslie | |
| Ken Prymus | ... | Pvt. Seidman | |
| Bobby Troup | ... | SSgt. Gorman |
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Rated R for sexual content. (edited version)Parents Guide:
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116 min | USA:112 min (PG version)Country:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)Certification:
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) (cut US version) | Iceland:L | West Germany:18 (original rating) | Canada:14A (video rating) | Portugal:M/12 | Italy:VM14 | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Peru:18 | Singapore:PG | UK:15 (video rating) (1987) | UK:X (original rating) (cut) | USA:PG (cut) | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Canada:R (Nova Scotia)Fun Stuff
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In the opening titles, when a soldier carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher and when when the soldier trips and falls down, it wasn't scripted. It was actually an accident by the actor who tripped over something. Robert Altman decided that instead of editing it out, to use it to foreshadow the dark humor theme as the movie's first small, but real, laugh. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Hawkeye first appears and is waiting for his driver, it is raining and there are puddles on the ground. When he and Duke drive off with the jeep, the sun is out and the ground is dry. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake: Radar.
Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly: Yes, sir. I'll get ahold of Major Burns...
Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake: I want you to get a hold of Major Burns...
Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly: ...Tell him to hold a couple day surgeons over into the night shift.
Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake: Tell him we're going to have hold a couple of surgeons over from the day shift out of the night shift.
Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly: I'll put in a call to General Hammond in Seoul...
Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake: Get General Hammond down there in Seoul, tell him to send us those new surgeons right away.
Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly: ...I hope he sends us those two new surgeons. We're sure gonna need'em.
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M*A*S*H is a groundbreaking film. Along with Catch 22, M*A*S*H had the audacity to ridicule two of the pillars of American society: war and religion. Whether you find this appalling, subversive, treasonous, outrageous or funny depends on your political and religious orientation. Surely the religious right will find the film blasphemous and the political right will find it treasonous. No matter what your point of view, M*A*S*H is certainly an in-your-face film.
The irony of the film is that for the time it was considered gruesomely bloody. Yet there are no battlefield scenes; all the blood is in the surgical unit. The CSI TV series shows more carnage than M*A*S*H, but M*A*S*H was filmed over 30 years ago.
M*A*S*H is loaded with bizarro characters. Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Robert Duvall, Tom Skerrit, Loretta Swit, Radar are all insane in their own way. In "M*A*S*H," everyone is cruel, playing mean practical jokes and the anti-heroes Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould are just plain heartless. They absolutely torment Major "Hot Lips" Hoolihan and Robert Duvall. None of the characters in the film tries to be funny. There are no jokes. The humor just grows from the situation which is the grim reality of a mobile surgical unit whose doctors and nurses try their best to repair the horribly mutilated bodies from an insane war. Having worked in a hospital setting, outrageous and black humor is commonplace, especially in the ER, but in M*A*S*H it's taken to a new level.