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Best Defense R 1984 1 hr. 34 min. Comedy List Reviews 13% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score An engineer (Dudley Moore) fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer (Eddie Murphy) has to ...
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- Willard Huyck
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- Dudley Moore
It's difficult to predict if audiences will be patient enough with Best Defense to allow it the shakedown time necessary to hit a funny stride. But the movie confirms a flair for comedy that may pay dividends when the filmmakers' rapport with the actors is strong enough to discipline and perhaps improve dodgy material. [25 Jul 1984, p.D3]
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- Willard Huyck
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- Dudley Moore
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BEST DEFENSE is a desperately unfunny comedy starring Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy. Moore is an enigineer who is designing a new tank. Murphy is an Army soldier who takes the tank into combat in Kuwait. Dreary acting is not the only bad thing that comes out of this sorry turkey.
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Budget. $18 million. Box office. $19,265,302 (domestic) [1] Best Defense is a 1984 American action comedy film, starring Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy. [2] The original music score was composed by Patrick Williams. [2] It was released by Paramount Pictures. [2] The film follows the lives of two different characters, who never interact.
- $18 million
- July 20, 1984 (U.S.)
- Gloria Katz
- Patrick Williams
Jul 20, 1984 · Best Defense: Directed by Willard Huyck. With Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, George Dzundza. A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.
Director, Screenplay. Robert Grossbach. Novel. Gloria Katz. Screenplay. 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 ...
