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It sits within the topics 1980s political comedy films, 1980s spy comedy films and 1980s war comedy films.
Its subject is documented across 19 Wikipedia language editions.
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4.3An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.
Released: 1984-07-2094 minDir: Willard HuyckComedy, WarBudget: $18.0MBox office: $19.3M
Cast
- Dudley Moore as Wylie
- Eddie Murphy as Landry
- Kate Capshaw as Laura
- George Dzundza as Loparino
- Helen Shaver as Claire
- Mark Arnott as Brank
Themes
- army
- middle east
- armor
- kgb
- engineer
- error
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Ratings
IMDb
3.8/10
6,494 votes
Metacritic
29/100
- Year
- 1984
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Genres
- Comedy, War
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 nomination
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- war film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Willard Huyck
- Screenwriter
- Gloria Katz
- Cast member
- Joel Polis
- Composer
- Patrick Williams
- Producer
- Gloria Katz
- Production company
- Paramount Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Donald Peterman
- Narrative location
- Kuwait
- Duration
- 89
- FilmAffinity ID
- 808793
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1985-05-24
- title
- Best Defense
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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United States Army
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Categories
1980s political comedy films1980s spy comedy films1980s war comedy films1984 action comedy films1984 American films1984 English-language films1984 filmsAmerican action comedy filmsAmerican political comedy filmsAmerican spy comedy filmsAmerican war comedy filmsEnglish-language action comedy filmsEnglish-language spy comedy filmsEnglish-language war comedy filmsFilms about the United States ArmyFilms based on American novelsFilms directed by Willard HuyckFilms produced by Gloria KatzFilms scored by Patrick Williams (composer)Films set in 1982Films set in 1984Films set in KuwaitFilms with screenplays by Gloria KatzFilms with screenplays by Willard Huyck