In the sweltering tension of pre-WWII Hawaii, a defiant bugler's refusal to box and a top sergeant's dangerous affair with his captain's wife expose the brutal honor and savage despair of men bound by the unyielding codes of the U.S. Army.
On Guadalcanal, 'The Thin Red Line' shows how brutal combat strips C-for-Charlie Company of meaning, leaving only a raw fight for survival and identity.
