Where to Watch Best Defense (1984) in the US

What it's about

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.

Cast and crew

Director

Willard Huyck

Writer

Robert Grossbach, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck

Starring

Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw

Details

Release date

Jul 20, 1984

Language

English, Spanish

Country

United States

Box office

$19,265,302

Awards

1 nomination

Where to Watch Best Defense (1984) in the US — common questions

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