![]() ![]() It's a sometimes fascinating viewing experience, but the struggle to create a cohesive movie out of essentially uncoordinated comedy moments is also clear. Much of Stripes was improvised on the spot, director Ivan Reitman keeping the cameras rolling while Murray made things up and the other cast members reacted. Hulka's platoon muddles its way to graduation before becoming embroiled in an unexpected incursion behind the Iron Curtain. Drill Sergeant Hulka (Warren Oates) tries to make soldiers out of them, with limited success. The fellow recruits include the overweight Ox (John Candy) and an assortment of the psychotic and the dim. He convinces his friend Russell Ziskey (Harold Ramis) that they should join the army, and off they go to training camp. Captain Stillman is reassigned to a weather station near Nome, Alaska.John Winger (Bill Murray) abandons his job as a taxi driver, is abandoned by his girlfriend, and has his car repossessed, all on the same day. Stella appears on the cover of Penthouse, Ox makes the cover of Tiger Beat, Russell recreates his firefight with the Russians for Guts magazine, and John is featured on the cover of Newsworld. Hulka retires and opens the HulkaBurger franchise. Upon returning to the US, John, Russell, Louise, Stella, and Hulka are treated as heroes, each being awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. With some assistance from Hulka, they save the entire platoon. John, Russell, Stella, and Louise take the EM-50 and infiltrate a Soviet base where the platoon is being held. He makes a mayday radio call that is heard by John and Russell, who realize that the platoon came looking for them and are now in danger. ![]() Hulka, recognizing where they are, jumps out of the truck just before it is captured by the Soviet Army. Stillman inadvertently leads the platoon across the border into Czechoslovakia. Hulka urges Stillman not to go, but is overruled. When Stillman finds the EM-50 missing, he launches an unauthorized mission to get the vehicle back before his superiors find out it is gone. ![]() Fed up with their boring assignment, John and Russell steal the EM-50 to visit their girlfriends, stationed in West Germany. Hulka and assigned to guard the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle, an armored personnel carrier disguised as a recreational vehicle. Once in Italy, the platoon is reunited with a recovered Sgt. General Barnicke is impressed when he finds out that they had to complete training without a drill sergeant, and decides they are just the kind of "go-getters" he wants working on his EM-50 project in Italy. There they give an eccentric, yet highly coordinated, drill display led by John. They rush to the parade grounds in their fatigues. After a long night of practice, they oversleep and almost miss the ceremony. The rest of the platoon are returned to base, where a furious Stillman threatens to make them all repeat basic training.Īfter partying with Stella and Louise, the buddies return to the barracks, and John motivates the platoon with a passionate speech and begins to get them in shape for graduation. When the club is raided by MPs and police, Stella and Louise cover for John and Russell. The men go to a mud wrestling bar, where John convinces Dewey "Ox" Oxberger to wrestle a group of women. Hulka is injured when Stillman, trying to impress a visiting colonel, orders a mortar crew to fire without setting target coordinates. As basic training progresses, Russell and John become romantically linked to female MPs Louise Cooper and Stella Hansen. Their commanding officer is the arrogant and incompetent Captain Stillman. ![]() He stands out as a slacker throughout basic training. Upon arriving at Fort Arnold, they meet their fellow recruits, and their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. Talking his best friend Russell Ziskey, a teacher of English as a second language, into joining with him, they go to a recruiting office and are soon sent off to basic training. Realizing that he is a loser with no prospects, he decides to join the Army. John Winger is a cab driver who, in the span of a few hours, loses his job, his apartment, his car, and his girlfriend. ![]()
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