Best Defense (1984)

Directed by:
Willard Huyck

Written by:
Robert Grossbach
Willard Huyck
Gloria Katz

Plot:
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.

Genres: Comedy / War
Countries: United States
Languages: English
Runtime: 94

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Cast:

Eddie Murphy... Lieutenant T.M. Landry

David Paymer... Kurly

Paul Eiding... Tourist

John Hostetter... Quirk, Dynatechnics

Darryl Henriques... Col. Zayas, San Salvador

Raye Birk... Sonny, Dynatechnics

George Dzundza... Steve Loparino

Dudley Moore... Wylie Cooper

David Rasche... Jeff the 'KBG' Agent

Tom Noonan... Frank Holtzman

Jim Jansen... Lieutenant

Kate Capshaw... Laura Cooper