A slightly battered UK cinema ticket from 1988 for Biloxi Blues. The paper is faded and creased, with the film title clearly printed, a very typical example of late-1980s cinema ticket stock.

Poster for Biloxi Blues (1988). Matthew Broderick stands in U.S. Army uniform among a group of young recruits during World War II. The image suggests a mix of comedy and coming-of-age awkwardness set against the strict routines of military training.

In 1988, I suspect I went to see this more for Matthew Broderick than for Neil Simon. What I remember most, though, is coming away struck by just how good Christopher Walken was.

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#nowwatching #BiloxiBlues #MatthewBroderick A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in #Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by #NeilSimon.

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Ben, you are killllllling me, it’s not pronounced “Bil-ahhx-ee” #TCMParty #BiloxiBlues

So after the Army he wrote a few plays and he married Elaie Joyce as we end #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

The mafia calls him the most feared man in New York

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That everyone is outside the door is everything.

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It was also one of his few true lead roles, and he was classic in it. #TCMParty #BiloxiBlues

This is such a great scene.

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The Dead Zone is my favorite Christopher Walken film, he was awesome in it.

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Walken isn’t playing Russian Roulette again #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

“If I kill both of you, they can only hang me once.” Okay, Neil Simon, you win with that one #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

Love Walken’s acting here - really feels bad for the kid #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

“Why didn’t you tell the Army?” If he did, things might have worse since he would have to explain why he’s not serving during wartime #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

There is no privacy in the Army #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

They are reading his thoughts, but the honest truth is that what a person thinks of you is his or her own business. #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

This movie had such an impact on me as a kid. #TCMparty #BiloxiBlues

Wait, Wykowski can READ? #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

This is how Fitzgerald fell for (Zelda) Daisy Buchanan.

lol.

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Those nuns in #BiloxiBlues look meaner than the nun who ran the orphanage in Silent Night Deadly Night. Yeah, that mean #TCMParty

My cousin lives in Biloxi and her husband works at the Keesler Air Force Base.

There is no Army base in Biloxi.

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I forgot Penelope Ann Miller was in #BiloxiBlues She’s gorgeous, even if she eventually played Nancy Reagan #TCMParty

Matt Mulhern, who plays Wykowski, later played a soldier on Dan Quayle’s favorite sitcom Major Dad #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

Ferris Bueller Day Off Cheating on Sloane #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

I thought that was Park Overall! I love her. I remember seeing her on Tom Snyder talking about how she bought stock in Kodak so she could go to shareholders' meetings and annoy them about how they fucked up her East Tennessee hometown with chemicals. #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

Park Overall is a nice name #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

Credit to #BiloxiBlues It’s an impressive physical production instead of a filmed recording of a stage play #TCMParty

I would gladly join the Army and lay down my life for our glorious leader Pete Hegseth #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

The Army doesn’t seem so bad. You get Cracker Jacks #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty

They had to spend a whole day marching in a swamp but at least you got to watch Abbott and Costello movies afterwards #BiloxiBlues #TCMParty