Upon returning to the US, John, Russell, Louise, Stella, and Hulka are hailed as heroes, and are each awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Realizing that their platoon is in danger, John, Russell, Stella, and Louise take the EM-50 and infiltrate the Soviet base where the platoon is being held, and rescue them with aid from Hulka. Hulka jumps from their truck before the Soviet Army captures it, and sends out a radio distress call that John and Russell hear. Stillman inadvertently leads the platoon across the border into Czechoslovakia. When Stillman finds the vehicle missing, he launches an unauthorized mission to retrieve it, against Hulka's objections. John and Russell steal it to visit Stella and Louise, who are stationed in West Germany. Upon arrival in Italy, the platoon is reunited with a recovered Hulka and tasked with guarding the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle, an armored personnel carrier disguised as a recreational vehicle. Impressed upon learning that they completed their training without a drill sergeant, Barnicke assigns them to a secret project he is overseeing in Italy. They rush to the parade ground, where John leads them in an unorthodox but highly coordinated drill display. After a night of practice, they oversleep and wake up an hour late for the ceremony. John motivates the disheartened platoon with a speech and begins preparing them for graduation. John and Russell have sex with Stella and Louise, then return to base. The rest of the platoon are returned to base, where Stillman reprimands them for being arrested and threatens to report them to the base commander, General Barnicke, and make them repeat basic training. When MPs and police raid the club, Stella and Louise help John and Russell escape.
Later, members of Hulka's platoon sneak off base and visit a mud wrestling bar, where John persuades Ox to compete with a group of women. John honors Russell's request for both of them to continue basic training.Īs graduation approaches, Hulka is injured when the haughty and dull-witted Captain Stillman, the recruit company's commanding officer, orders a mortar crew to fire without first setting target coordinates.
Louise and Stella find them fighting and drive them back to their barracks without reporting them. That night, Russell catches John attempting to flee back to Louisville and stops him, angrily reminding John that it was his idea that they both enlist. When John throws a punch, Hulka dodges and hits him in the stomach, then suggests that John think about the encounter. In the latrine, Hulka privately tells John that he will never make a good soldier and invites John to attack him. Hulka orders Russell to scrub garbage cans for 24 hours and gives the rest of the platoon two weeks of KP duty. John irritates Hulka with his slacker attitude, and he and Russell become romantically involved with MPs Louise Cooper and Stella Hansen.Īfter Hulka discovers that John and Russell have briefly gone AWOL, Russell confesses his mistake, but John keeps silent. One of them, the overweight Dewey "Ox" Oxberger, wants to slim down and be respected by his fellow trainees and women in general. Following in-processing, the recruits introduce themselves and explain their reasons for enlisting. Upon arrival, they meet their fellow recruits and their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. The two visit a recruiting office and are soon sent off to basic training. Realizing his limited prospects, he decides to join the Army and persuades best friend Russell Ziskey, a vocational ESL teacher, to join as well.
#STRIPES CLUB DRIVER#
In the course of one day, Louisville cab driver John Winger loses his job, his apartment, his car, and his girlfriend Anita, who has grown tired of his immaturity. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, and was a commercial success. Murray stars as John Winger, an immature taxi driver who, after losing his job and his girlfriend, decides to enlist in the United States Army with his friend Russell Ziskey (Ramis). The film's score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. Numerous actors, including John Larroquette, John Diehl, Conrad Dunn, Judge Reinhold, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Timothy Busfield, and Bill Paxton, appear in the film in some of the earliest roles of their careers. Ramis wrote the film with Len Blum and Dan Goldberg, the latter of whom also served as producer alongside Reitman. Stripes is a 1981 American war comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.
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