Stripes (1998)
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Director:Ivan Reitman
Studio:Sony Pictures
Rating:4
Rated:R
Date Added:2008-05-24
Last Seen:2019-02-17
ASIN:0767817753
UPC:9780767817752
Price:14.95
Genre:Comedy
Release:1998-10-11
Location:0547
Duration:106
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Features:Anamorphic
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Ivan Reitman  ...  (Director)
  ...  (Writer)
 
Bill Murray  ...  
Harold Ramis  ...  
Warren Oates  ...  
P.J. Soles  ...  
Sean Young  ...  
Summary: Bill Murray was heading toward a career peak on the back of comedies such as this one from 1981, the second film in his ongoing collaboration with director Ivan Reitman (the two went on to make Ghostbusters). Murray plays a chronic loser who joins the army and fails to find a fan for his ironic sensibilities in his by-the-book sergeant (Warren Oates). When push comes to shove, however, the smirking hero takes charge of his ragtag unit and turns them into fighting machines, albeit to the rhythm of hit songs by Manfred Mann and Sly Stone. The film is occasionally funny, but it mostly plays like any one of a dozen underachieving comedies featuring players from Saturday Night Live and SCTV. --Tom Keogh