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Best Defense
41.00%
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July 20, 1984
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Comedy, Action
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.
Featured Crew
Willard Huyck
Screenplay
Robert Grossbach
Novel
Gloria Katz
Producer
Cast
![Dudley Moore](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//8xLueKMu5tpBmLNzZ73eWBNHycW.jpg)
Dudley Moore
Wylie Cooper
![Eddie Murphy](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//qgjMfefsKwSYsyCaIX46uyOXIpy.jpg)
Eddie Murphy
Lieutenant T.M. Landry
![Kate Capshaw](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//dhwyfvVeF7TNnfMY74Wkab9iCgm.jpg)
Kate Capshaw
Laura Cooper
![George Dzundza](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//wmnQQn0dFygl90M2N8tlWlpGHzV.jpg)
George Dzundza
Steve Loparino
![Helen Shaver](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//4RcaswFfLR8D3bQBHVlxyBR0R0H.jpg)
Helen Shaver
Clair Lewis