Basic Training (1985)
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
Director: Andrew Sugerman
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Ann Dusenberry as Melinda |
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Rhonda Shear as Debbie |
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Angela Aames as Cheryl |
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Will Nye as Lt. Cranston |
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Walter Gotell as Nabokov |
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Marty Brill as General Strombs |
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William A. Forester as General Kane |
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Christopher Pennock as Major Magnum |
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Mark Withers as Captain Drysdale |
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Gerard Prendergast as Bill Slater |
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Marty Cohen as Michael |
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Orly Oh as Tanya |
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Linda Hoy as Miss Perkins |
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Kenny Ellis as Sidney |
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Gerald Berns as Steve |
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Lynn Griffis as Reporter #1 |
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John Ochoa as Reporter #2 |
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Michael Greene as Dimitri |
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Mark Lowenthal as Vladimir |
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Sam Scarber as SWAT Leader |
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Ari Barak as Abdul |
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Sammy Warren as Shoeshine Man |
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Donald Fullilove as Typewriter Man |
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Cynthia Frost as Cleaning Woman |
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Barbara Peckinpaugh as Salesgirl #1 |
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Erika Dockery as Salesgirl #2 |
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Fred Saxon as TV Newscaster |
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Patrick Dollaghan as Handsome Man |
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Gilbert Adler as Security Guard |
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Ruth Jones as Elevator Operator |
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Ellen Hughes as Stewardess (uncredited) |
| Directing | Andrew Sugerman | Director |
| Writing | Bernie Kahn | Writer |
| Camera | Stephen W. Gray | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Warden Neil | Costume Design |
| Editing | Larry Bock | Editor |
| Directing | Coby Turner | Script Supervisor |
| Production | Barbara Claman | Casting |
| Production | Victoria Burrows | Casting |
| Production | Otto Salamon | Producer |
| Sound | Michael Cruz | Original Music Composer |
