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Bookmark this pageStripes (1981)
Director: Ivan Reitman
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From Time Out Film Guide
Purposeless slob Murray loses car (repossessed), apartment and girlfriend (thrown out) all in the same day, and on a whim joins the US Army; a decision he spends most of the film regretting. Though the overall tone is as unquestioning of the virtues of the military life - discipline, duty, honour, etc - as was Private Benjamin, at least at its centre Murray is a genuine couldn't-give-a-shit character for the early '80s. Reitman, who also originated Animal House and Meatballs, manages a reasonable success rate at pulling off the numerous verbal and sight gags with which the script is peppered.Author: RM
Cast & crew
Director: Ivan Reitman
Producer: Ivan Reitman, Daniel Goldberg
Cast: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, PJ Soles, John Larroquette, Sean Young, John Diehl, Lance LeGault, John Candy full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 106 mins
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