| Cadence | |
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Promotional movie poster for the film |
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| 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.
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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).
| 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 |