James Cromwell as Lieutenant General Joe Campbell Timothy Hutton as Colonel Bill Kent Leslie Stefanson as Captain Elisabeth Campbell, General Campbell's daughter and Psychological Operations Officer Daniel von Bargen as Chief of Police Yardley Clarence Williams III as Colonel George Fowler, Adjuntant to the General James Woods as Colonel Bob Moore, Elisabeth's commanding officer Mark Boone Jr. as Sergeant Dalbert Elkins John Beasley as Colonel Don Slesinger, Elisabeth's psychiatrist at West Point Boyd Kestner as Captain Jake Elby Brad Beyer as Captain Bransford John Benjamin Hickey as Captain Goodson John Frankenheimer as General Sonnenberg Production The General's Daughter was directed by Simon West and produced by Mace Neufeld. It was an adaptation of the bestselling book of the same name, written by Nelson DeMille and published in 1992. William Goldman did some work on the script. Michael Douglas was originally attached to star. Much of the film was filmed in various locations in and around Savannah, Georgia. A love scene between Travolta and Stowe was cut from the final film. Two key changes were made after test screenings: Travolta's character made a stronger moral stand at the end, and it became clearer at the beginning that he was a military investigator working undercover. Talking about the rape scene, Leslie Stefanson said, "It was horrible for me, but there was no way to avoid it. I don't want to necessarily ever do it again, but an important message could be brought up by it." Reception Box office Against an estimated budget from $60 to $95 million, The General's Daughter grossed almost $103 million at the domestic box office, contributing to a worldwide gross of $150 million. Critical response The General's Daughter garnered generally negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has it at a approval rating based on reviews, with an average score of . The website's critical consensus reads: "Contrived performances and over-the-top sequences offer little real drama". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 47 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B+" on scale of A to F. Roger Ebert described The General's Daughter as well-made and with credible performances, but marred by a death scene that was "so unnecessarily graphic and gruesome that by the end I felt sort of unclean." Janet Maslin of The New York Times commended Travolta for