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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.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.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.
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Charles David Richards
- Mugger
- (as Stoney Richards)
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- TriviaEddie Murphy's character was added to the film after the original version tested poorly with audiences.
- Quotes
Chief Padilla, Guatemala: Boom. Dead. Communista.
- Alternate versionsABC edited just 35 seconds from this film for its 1987 network television premiere.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: The Stinkers of 1984 (1985)
- SoundtracksOn the Road Again
Written by Willie Nelson
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Fairly amusing but the cross cutting between scenes occasionally gets tedious
Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy are two entirely different looking actors who have two things in common. They were both hugely popular box office comedy stars throughout the 1980's and they were both part of the cast of this 1984 Paramount release. If these two comedy titans had any scenes together, that could've made the film really great but despite that setback, the film is not a total waste. Two stories are told in the film. One has to do with technology programmer Wylie Cooper's (Moore) chance encounter with a man who's on the run from some shady corporate criminals and how Cooper's life changes for the better and for the worse after the encounter. The other is set two years later and has to do with American soldier Landry (Murphy) test driving a faulty experimental tank that Cooper had invented and accidentally driving it into the middle of a battlefield. That tank (Cooper building it and Landry using it) is what the two stories have in common. The most major complaint about this film is its constantly shifting from one story to the other thus confusing some viewers. I managed to follow along though and if anybody who's thinking of seeing this one can too, you may find both leading actors in fine form. Just don't expect the comedy sparks of their far more successful individually starring vehicles including "Arthur" and "Beverly Hills Cop."
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Box office
- Budget
- $18,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $19,265,302
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,872,297
- Jul 22, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $19,265,302
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