A Few Good Men is a play by Aaron Sorkin, first produced on Broadway by David Brown in 1989. Sorkin adapted his work into a screenplay for a 1992 film directed by Rob Reiner, produced by Brown and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore.

It tells the story of military lawyers at a court-martial who uncover a high-level conspiracy in the course of defending their clients, United States Marines accused of murder.

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Sorkin got the inspiration for the play from a phone conversation with his sister Deborah, who had graduated from Boston University Law School and signed up for a three-year stint with the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. She was going to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to defend a group of Marines who came close to killing a fellow Marine in a hazing ordered by a superior officer. A young JAG defends the group, based on the real life experience of novice trial lawyer Donald Marcari. It was his first case.Theatre of Dare, North Carolina, "A Few Good Men - The Real Story", Accessed July 31, 2008] Sorkin took that information and wrote much of his story on cocktail napkins while bartending at the Palace Theatre on Broadway.