A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.
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| 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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Budget:
$18,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$7,872,297, 22 July 1984, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$19,265,302Company Credits
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Though Eddie Murphy is listed as Strategic Guest Star, he claimed in an interview with David Letterman that he was paid more for his work in this film than for 48 Hrs. (1982) and Trading Places (1983), combined. See more »Alternate Versions
ABC edited just 35 seconds from this film for its 1987 network television premiere. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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C'mon you can't be serious thinking this is of comedy value...dudely moron is his usual pathetic self...even the women in the cast are taller when he wears elevator shoes...not only does this jerk have to buy all his material he has to pay for the phony laughs as well...the truly funny part of this fiasco was seeing kate "the Body" capshaw in the same scene and bed with dudley doofus...she must have been paid a handsome bonus to appear in this film about non-sense....yes, total disregard for arabs in general ....helen shaver actually had a moment of spark but remained fully clothed for a change...on a scale of bad to worse i'd rate this a minus 20