Basic Training (1985)

3.8/10 88 min Comedy

Overview

Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss seems to be more interested in getting into her pants than trying to find lost data on the Russians. Melinda resists his advances and begins working her way up in the Pentagon, finding subtle ways of getting her policies implemented by manipulating the slovenly males that populate the Pentagon, including finding a way to defuse the mounting conflict with the Russians

Cast

Ann Dusenberry

Melinda

Rhonda Shear

Debbie

Angela Aames

Cheryl

Walter Gotell

Nabokov

Marty Brill

General Strombs

Mark Withers

Captain Drysdale

Kenny Ellis

Sidney

Gerald Berns

Steve

Michael Greene

Dimitri

Mark Lowenthal

Vladimir

Sam Scarber

SWAT Leader

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