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Release Date: 1984

Cast: Paul Comi, Peter Michael Goetz, George Dzundza, Darryl Henriques, Christopher Maher, Tyler Tyhurst, Mark Arnott, Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, Joel Polis, Charles David Richards ...MORE

Cast: Paul Comi, Peter Michael Goetz, George Dzundza, Darryl Henriques, Christopher Maher, Tyler Tyhurst, Mark Arnott, Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, Joel Polis, Charles David Richards, Helen Shaver, Lorry Goldman, David Rasche, Tom Noonan ...LESS

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Best Defense is a comedy film starring Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy. It was released in 1984 by Paramount Pictures. The movie takes place as two parallel plots separated by several years: Moore is an engineer developing a targeting system on a tank for the United States Army and Murphy is an American tank commander who finds himself forced to use the vehicle years later when Iraq invades Kuwait (an unintentional foreshadowing of the Gulf War that occurred six years after the release of the film). The protagonists never interact in any way throughout the film. However a cut scene showed... MORE

Best Defense is a comedy film starring Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy. It was released in 1984 by Paramount Pictures. The movie takes place as two parallel plots separated by several years: Moore is an engineer developing a targeting system on a tank for the United States Army and Murphy is an American tank commander who finds himself forced to use the vehicle years later when Iraq invades Kuwait (an unintentional foreshadowing of the Gulf War that occurred six years after the release of the film). The protagonists never interact in any way throughout the film. However a cut scene showed both Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy together, but was edited out from the final film. The film progresses as the indifferent and incompetent Moore slowly becomes more and more conscientious as he sees his corrupt employer falsifying test results on the notoriously unreliable system. This is interwoven with clips of the reluctant Murphy being forced into combat with a pair of ill trained Kuwaiti crewmen and the lemon of a tank (the machine gun falls apart in Murphy's hands, etc). The film reaches its climax when Murphy attempts to fire the main gun, which jams due to an overheated component ("The LESS