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Tom Berenger
American actor
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“Platoon”
- In Platoon
Barnes (Tom Berenger), a tough, experienced, and merciless fighter, and Sgt. Elias (Willem Dafoe), who is likewise tough and experienced but who strives to hold fast to his moral centre. Shortly, Elias’s squad, consisting largely of green recruits, is sent out on patrol. When night falls,…
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“The Gingerbread Man”
- In Robert Altman: 1980s and ’90s of Robert Altman
…a fascinating cast—including Kenneth Branagh, Tom Berenger, Robert Downey, Jr., Darryl Hannah, and Robert Duvall—but some critics questioned whether Altman had been the best choice to take on the thriller by John Grisham that was the film’s source. Better received was Cookie’s Fortune (1999), a study of the effects of…
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