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Renaissance Man

One man's mission to teach the few, the proud... The impossible!

Rating 6.1 / 10Release June 3, 1994Runtime 128 min

An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.

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