A Few Good Men is a 1992 drama film, directed by Rob Reiner, and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore. It was based from a play of the same name by Aaron Sorkin. A courtroom drama, the film revolves around the trial of two US Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine and the tribulations of their lawyer, Daniel Kaffee (Cruise), as he prepares a case to defend his clients.

Plot

LTJG Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), son of a former Attorney General and Navy Judge Advocate General, is an inexperienced U.S. Navy lawyer who leads the defense in the court-martial of two Marines, PFC Louden Downey (James Marshall) and LCpl Harold Dawson (Wolfgang Bodison), who are accused of murdering a fellow Marine of their unit, PFC William T. Santiago (Michael DeLorenzo), at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Tom Cruise's character Lt. Daniel Kaffee was based on David Iglesias, at the time a United States Navy Reserve commander.The Internet Movie Database, "A Few Good Men - Trivia", Accessed October 9, 2009

Santiago compares unfavorably to his fellow Marines, has poor relations with them and fails to respect the chain of the command. He goes above his superior to bargain for a transfer in exchange for blowing the whistle on Dawson for firing a possibly illegal shot toward the Cuban side.