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Best Defense is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Willard Huyck released in USA on 20 july 1984 with Dudley Moore
Best Defense (1984)
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Add to a movie listBest Defense is a 1984 comedy film starring Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy. The original music score was composed by Patrick Williams. It was released by Paramount Pictures.
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The movie takes place as two parallel plots separated by couple years: In 1982, Wylie Cooper (Moore), is an engineer developing a targeting system on a tank for the United States Army. In 1984, Murphy is US Army Lt. Landry, an American tank commander sent to Kuwait to demonstrate "XM-10 Annihilator", America's latest main battle tank, which is equipped with Cooper's system. Because of the tank's poor design and shoddy construction, Landry and his crew are barely able to control or navigate the XM-10 before it leaves the proving grounds and wanders into a combat zone during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait (an unintentional foreshadowing of the Gulf War that occurred six years after the release of the film).Actors
Dudley Moore
(Wylie Cooper)
Eddie Murphy
(Lieutenant T.M. Landry)
Kate Capshaw
(Laura Cooper)
David Rasche
(Jeff)
George Dzundza
(Steve Loparino)
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