Your Mother Wears Combat Boots (1989)

An overprotective single mother tries to stop her son joining the parachute unit by sending him to the college, fearful that he may end up his life like his father did. He secretly leaves ... See full summary »

Director:

Anson Williams

Writers:

Bill Novodor (story), Susan Hunter (story),

Stars:

Barbara Eden, Hector Elizondo, Meagen Fay

Cast

Credited cast:
Barbara Eden	...	Brenda Andersen
Hector Elizondo	...	Sergeant Burke
Meagen Fay	...	Edie Winchell (as Meagan Fay)
David Kaufman	...	James Michael Andersen
Richard McGregor	...	Barry Barnes
Conchata Ferrell	...	Specialist Mononaghee
Maria O'Brien	...	Carla
Annabelle Gurwitch
A.J. Stephans
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Keith Adams
Matthew Ansara
Bob Banks	...	Drill Sergeant
Kate Benton	...	Susan Zimmel
Marc Clement
Ernest Dixon	...	Sergeant Hawkins

Storyline

An overprotective single mother tries to stop her son joining the parachute unit by sending him to the college, fearful that he may end up his life like his father did. He secretly leaves the college and joins the army, but the mother finds out and makes a bet with him that if she passes the basic training, he will leave the unit.

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Plot Keywords:

military spoof | army life | american soldier | military | boots | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 March 1989 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mom's Army

Filming Locations:

Columbus, Georgia, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mi-Bar Productions, Kushner-Locke Company, The

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1997)

User Reviews

A Funny Fun Mother and Son Movie , Very Very Enjoyable,

A great movie starring Barbara Eden and her real life son , Matthew Ansara. Barbara as Brenda Anderson, the overprotective mom tries to keep her son out of the airforce and wants him to go to college. But in the process everything goes astray and instead Brenda (Barbara Eden) winds up in the airforce. Things get very funny as she alienates everyone in sight by getting them on KP for her screwups. In one hilarious scene she appears on the battleground wearing short shorts because she misunderstood the term BDU (battle dress uniform) to mean BVD's ,which of course, she told her sergeant, she was no way going to wear. In the end she is forced to do a jump from the plane to set an example for her son and winds up encouraging him to stay in. I strongly suspect, from the reality of the scenes that they were done with the cooperation of the airforce. Barbara as usual makes everything hilarious with her antics. A great fun movie.