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Toy Soldiers is a mostly forgotten film from 1991. It is also one of my Favorites. This film is pure action-adventure escapism. With Louis Gossett Jr., one of the better character actors from the ’80s and Nineties. Sean Astin, who by this point had Goonies under his belt and was a fine actor long before he went on to carry Frodo most of the way to Mordor, not to mention through three films, and Wil Wheaton, who at this point had not only to Stand By Me but also several seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, on his resume` as well, how could this one not be a hit?
Astin plays Billy Tepper, the leader of a group of misfit students who all share a healthy disrespect of Authority. Wheaton plays his roommate, Joey Trotta, and in the role shoes off a lot of the traits that make “The Game”, and “The First Duty” two of my absolute favorite TNG Episodes. Gossett plays the role of their Dean of Students, and the man responsible for keeping these delinquents under control.
When their boarding school is overrun by a group of terrorists, it is up to the delinquents, to show the Dean, the USMC, and a bunch of gun-happy terrorists. that undisciplined doesn’t mean stupid, and it doesn’t mean cowardly, as they use their own particular talents to try and take back their school, and save the Faculty as well as the rest of the Students.
Personally, I would love to see this film get a long over-due sequel, perhaps even with Astin playing a now-grown-up Tepper, who returns to his former school, to take on the post as Dean of Students and Disciplinarian, to a new generation of “Rejects.”