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== Reception ==
== Reception ==
=== Box office ===
=== Box office ===
With a $95 million budget, the film grossed almost $103 million at the domestic box office and $150 million worldwide.<ref name=mojo>[https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=generalsdaughter.htm The General's Daughter]. ''Box Office Mojo''. Retrieved 24 December 2008.</ref>
With a $60 million budget, the film grossed almost $103 million at the domestic box office and $150 million worldwide.<ref name=mojo>[https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=generalsdaughter.htm The General's Daughter]. ''Box Office Mojo''. Retrieved 24 December 2008.</ref>


=== Critical response ===
=== Critical response ===

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This article is about the film. For the source book, see The General's Daughter (novel).

{{Infobox film | name = The General's Daughter | image = Generaldposter.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Simon West | producer = Mace Neufeld | screenplay = Christopher Bertolini
William Goldman | based_on = The General's Daughter
by Nelson DeMille

| starring =

| cinematography = Peter Menzies Jr. | music = Carter Burwell | editing = Glen Scantlebury | distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released =

  • June 18, 1999 (1999-06-18)

| runtime = 116 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $60 millionCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Much of the film was filmed in various locations in and around Savannah, Georgia.

A love scene between Travolta and Stowe was cut from the final film.[1]

Two key changes were made after test screenings: Travolta's character made a stronger moral stand at the end, and it became clearer at the beginning that he was a military investigator working undercover.[2]

Reception

Box office

With a $60 million budget, the film grossed almost $103 million at the domestic box office and $150 million worldwide.[3]

Critical response

The film had generally negative reviews with 22% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 89 reviews with an average rating of 4.3/10. The consensus is "Contrived performances and over-the-top sequences offer little real drama".[4] On Metacritic the film has a score of 47% based on reviews from 24 critics.[5] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B+" on scale of A to F.[6]

Roger Ebert gave the film a mixed 2.5 stars out a possible 4, describing The General's Daughter as well-made and with credible performances, but marred by a death scene that was "so unnecessarily graphic and gruesome that by the end I felt sort of unclean."[7]

References

  1. ^ Giammarco, David (5 June 1999). "From the deep south to outer space: John Travolta plays a military sleuth in his new film The General's Daughter. In next year's Battlefield Earth, he's a 10-foot-tall alien invader". National Post. p. 4. ProQuest 329519951.
  2. ^ Portman, Jamie (11 June 1999). "Movie thriller may upset U.S. military". North Bay Nugget. p. C10. ProQuest 352486546.
  3. ^ The General's Daughter. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
  4. ^ "The General's Daughter". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  5. ^ "The General's Daughter". Metacritic.
  6. ^ "Cinemascore". Archived from the original on 2018-12-20.
  7. ^ Ebert, Roger. "The General's Daughter". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved October 14, 2017.

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