The Great SantiniThe Great Santini

Academy Award winner Robert Duvall stars as a maverick military officer whose tyranny threatens to tear his family apart in the gripping drama THE GREAT SANTINI.A warrior without a war, Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meechum (Duvall) governs his troubled family using the same iron will and cold-as-steel toughness with which he commands his squadron. Nicknamed "The Great Santini," Meechum almost destroys his devoted wife (Blythe Danner) and rebellious son (Michael O'Keefe) with his harsh, authoritarian love.Based on a novel by Pat Conroy.