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Synopsis: At the end of a very bad day when he realizes his life has gone and is going nowhere, John Winger is able to convince his best friend, Russell Ziskey, whose life is not much better, to enlist in the army, despite they not being obvious soldier material. In basic training, they are only two of a bunch of misfits that comprise their platoon. However, it is still John that is constantly butting heads with their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. Two of their saving graces are Stella and Louise, two MPs who get them out of one scrape after another. Their entire platoon is in jeopardy of not graduating. But what happens during basic leads to their entire platoon being assigned to an overseas mission in Italy, to test a new urban assault vehicle, the EM-50 project. John and Russell decide to take the EM-50 for an unauthorized test drive to visit Stella and Louise who have been reassigned to West Germany. In the process, the rest of the platoon, Hulka, and Hulka's immediate superior, self-absorb
Genre: Comedy, War
Director(s): Ivan Reitman
Production: Columbia Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
R
Year:
1981
106 min
3,461 Views


Get down.

- One tough door!

- You got it locked on the inside?

It's because of you people

that I cannot get outside!

It's always your fault.

You are not capable of handling--

to take orders from me.

- Open this door!

- I'm gonna squash him!

- Winger! Oh, I'm so glad!

- What are you doing here?

Look out, Louise!

There's a tank behind us! Move it!

Find John, will you?

I'm gonna kill him.

We had a car waiting.

Let's get outta here!

We're here!

You're in trouble!

You're going on report!

There's something

blocking the road. Hang on!

I'm gettin' too old

for this sh*t!

Gentlemen, we are in Germany!

Platoon, attention!

Queen Anne salute!

Get up!

Thank you.

It's great to be back home.

My people, we're number one.

All right.

All right, we're getting medals.

Look. Valorous service. Thank you.

What the--

A surprise party!

I'll kill you.

Whose idea was this?

Everybody's coming to my place.

This is ridiculous.

Senator, hang onto that,

will you, for me?

Oh, I wrote.

I didn't know if you'd come.

No questions, please.

We just want to get back

to our hoteI rooms...

and have some really serious sex.

What are you lookin' at?

Keep your eyes out there.

Oh, you old dog.

Right face!

Forward march!

Left...

Left, right, lett.

There she was just walkin'

down the street singin'

Doo wah ditty

ditty dum ditty doo

Snapping her fingers

and shuffling her feet singin'

She looked good

She looked fine

And I nearly lost my mind

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Len Blum

Leonard Solomon "Len" Blum (born 1951) is an award-winning Canadian screenwriter, film producer and film composer. more…

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