Best Defense

Best Defense

94 mins | Comedy, Action | July 20, 1984

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.

Best Defense

94 mins | Comedy, Action | July 20, 1984

Best Defense
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.
IMDb rating 3.8
Producers Paramount, Cinema Group Ventures
Original title Best Defense
Directors Louise Jaffe, Willard Huyck
Writers Robert Grossbach, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck

Cast

Dudley Moore

as Wylie Cooper

Eddie Murphy

as Lieutenant T.M. Landry

Kate Capshaw

as Laura Cooper

George Dzundza

as Steve Loparino

Helen Shaver

as Clair Lewis

Pamela Stonebrook

as Singer, Rive Gauche Room

Tom Noonan

as Frank Holtzman

David Paymer

as Kurly

Tracey Ross

as Arab Girl

Elizabeth Reiko Kubota

as Japanese Singer