Best Defense

"Unfortunately, they're both on our side."

Jul 20 1984 R 1h 34m
Comedy, War

An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.

Plot

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.

Written by

Robert Grossbach, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck

Directed by

Willard Huyck

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Paramount, Cinema Group Ventures

Languages

English

Awards

1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
6,558
Average Rating
3.8 out of 10
Metascore
29
Popularity
NA