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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Dudley Moore | ... | Wylie Cooper | |
| Eddie Murphy | ... | Lieutenant T.M. Landry | |
| Kate Capshaw | ... | Laura Cooper | |
| George Dzundza | ... | Steve Loparino | |
| Helen Shaver | ... | Clair Lewis | |
| Mark Arnott | ... | Harvey Brank | |
| Peter Michael Goetz | ... | Frank Joyner | |
| Tom Noonan | ... | Frank Holtzman | |
| David Rasche | ... | Jeff the 'KBG' Agent | |
| Paul Comi | ... | Chief Agent | |
| Darryl Henriques | ... | Col. Zayas, San Salvador | |
| Joel Polis | ... | First Agent | |
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John A. Zee | ... | Col. McGuinn |
| Matthew Laurance | ... | Ali, Landry's Tank Crew | |
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Christopher Maher | ... | Sayyid, Landry's Tank Crew |
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Wylie is a lazy engineer. Landry is a Sergeant specialising in Armour. They have never met but their lives become entangled when Landry must take the tank Wylie designed into combat. Wylie is waiting for his employer to go out of business when he meets another engineer who gives him a disk with the plans for a system that will save his employer. The other engineer is dead moments later leaving Wylie with the disk and credit for the design. Suddenly Wylie is no longer a hack, but the saviour of his company and finds his life is no longer the same. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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20 July 1984 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$18,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$7,872,297, 22 July 1984, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$19,265,302Company Credits
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To receive a 15 certificate the UK cinema version was cut by 2 minutes with heavy edits to the opening sex scene. The cuts were waived for the upgraded 18 rated video, and the certificate downgraded to 15 for DVD in 2004. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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