Cadence (film)

Cadence
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	Martin Sheen
Produced by	Timothy Gamble Frank Giustra Peter E. Strauss
Written by	Dennis Shryack
Starring	Martin Sheen Charlie Sheen Laurence Fishburne Michael Beach
Music by	Georges Delerue
Cinematography	Richard Leiterman
Editing by	Martin Hunter
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	France: 1990 (Deauville Film Festival) United States: January 18, 1991
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Cadence is a 1990 film directed by (and starring) Martin Sheen, in which Charlie Sheen plays an inmate in a United States Army stockade in West Germany during the 1960s. Sheen plays alongside his father Martin Sheen and brother Ramon Estevez. The film is based on a novel by Gordon Weaver.

Plot

Pfc. Franklin Bean (Charlie Sheen) gets drunk and goes AWOL upon the death of his father. As punishment, he is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of giving into racism, Bean joins forces with his fellow inmates and rises up against the bigoted prison warden, MSgt. Otis McKinney (Martin Sheen).

Cast

Actor	Character
Charlie Sheen	Pfc. Franklin Fairchild Bean
Martin Sheen	MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Laurence Fishburne	Roosevelt Stokes
Blu Mankuma	Bryce
Michael Beach	Webb
Harry Stewart	Harry 'Sweetbread' Crane
John Toles-Bey	Lawrence
James Marshall	Cpl. Harold Lamar
Ramon Estevez	Cpl. Gerald Gessner
Jay Brazeau	Mr. Vito
Samantha Langevin	Mrs. Vito
Ken Douglas	Kramer
Weston McMillan	DeLuc
David Michael O'Neill	Sager
Allan Lysell	Sheridan
Don S. Davis	Haig
Roark Critchlow	Brooks
Alec Burden	Abel Fox
Steven Hilton	Col. Clark
Joe Lowry	Col. Porter
Lochlyn Munro	Bartender
Tom McBeath	Principal
Jennifer Griffin	Tattoo Woman
Brent Stait	MP
Deryl Hayes	MP in bar
Tony Pantages	GI in bar
Christopher Judge	MP in bar
Matt Clark	Franklin F. Bean, Sr.
Robert Gazzola	Bean (age 8)
David Glyn-Jones	Funeral Director
F. Murray Abraham	Capt. Ramon Garcia
Jenn Griffin	Tattoo woman

Cast Notes

• Lawrence Fishbourne worked with Martin Sheen ten years earlier, on Apocalypse Now.

External links

• Cadence at the Internet Movie Database
• Cadence at AllRovi