Rules of Engagement | |
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Directed by | William Friedkin |
Screenplay by | Stephen Gaghan |
Story by | James Webb |
Produced by | Scott Rudin Richard D. Zanuck |
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Cinematography | William A. Fraker Nicola Pecorini |
Edited by | Augie Hess |
Music by | Mark Isham |
Production companies | Scott Rudin Productions Seven Arts Pictures |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
Countries | United States Germany |
Languages | English Arabic Vietnamese |
Budget | $60 million[1] |
Box office | $71.7 million[1] |
Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American war legal drama film, directed by William Friedkin, written by Stephen Gaghan, from a story by Jim Webb, and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after Marines under his orders kill several civilians outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen.