Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American film directed by William Friedkin and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson plays Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after men under Childers' orders kill a large number of civilians outside the American embassy in Yemen. Screenwriter James Webb is a former Marine combat officer, lawyer and Secretary of the Navy. Webb is currently the senior United States Senator from Virginia. The film opens with Operation Kingfisher, a disastrous American advance in the Vietnam War, and shows Lt. Terry Childers execute an... unarmed prisoner to intimidate an NVA officer into calling off an ambush of American marines, thereby saving the life of Lt. Hays Hodges . The movie jumps to 1996; Childers and his Marine Expeditionary Unit are called to evacuate the United States Ambassador to Yemen from the embassy grounds, after a routine demonstration against American influence in the Persian Gulf turns into rock-throwing and sporadic fire from nearby rooftops.
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| Release date: | March 31, 2000 |
| Directed by: | William Friedkin |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 128 Minutes |
| Producer: | Scott Rudin, Richard D. Zanuck |
| Editor: | Augie Hess |
| Music by: | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography: | Nicola Pecorini, William A. Fraker |
| Screenplay by: | Stephen Gaghan |
| Estimated budget: | $60,000,000 |
| Genre: | Action, Thriller |