Best Defense (movie)

Best Defense (movie)

  • User score: 4.1
  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Willard Huyck
  • Production companies: Paramount Pictures, Cinema Group Ventures
  • Genre: Comedy, Action
  • Budget: $18,000,000
  • Revenue: $19,265,302
  • Release date: 7/20/1984
  • Run time: 94 min.

Movie description

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 gives him a disk with the plans for a system that will save his employer. The other engineer is dead moments later leaving Wylie with the disk and credit for the design. Suddenly Wylie is no longer a hack, but the saviour of his company and finds his life is no longer the same.

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Dudley Moore

Dudley Moore

Role(s): Wylie Cooper

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Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy

Role(s): Lieutenant T.M. Landry

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Kate Capshaw

Kate Capshaw

Role(s): Laura Cooper

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George Dzundza

George Dzundza

Role(s): Steve Loparino

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Helen Shaver

Helen Shaver

Role(s): Clair Lewis

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