Stripes

Ivan Reitman · 1981 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A New York cab driver loses his job, his car and his girlfriend in one afternoon and talks his friend into enlisting with him, on the theory that the peacetime army is a health club with rifles. Their platoon of misfits fails basic training in every particular while a sergeant tries to make the drill stick. Murray's insubordinate deadpan became the house style of American comedy for the next decade.

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