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Basic Training

3.819851h 28mRMovieComedy

Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack.…

DirectorAndrew Sugerman
WriterBernie Kahn
ProducerOtto Salamon

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Cast · Directed by Andrew Sugerman

ADAnn Dusenberry
Ann Dusenberry
Melinda
RSRhonda Shear
Rhonda Shear
Debbie
AAAngela Aames
Angela Aames
Cheryl
WN
Will Nye
Lt. Cranston
WGWalter Gotell
Walter Gotell
Nabokov
MBMarty Brill
Marty Brill
General Strombs
WF
William A. Forester
General Kane
CP
Christopher Pennock
Major Magnum
MWMark Withers
Mark Withers
Captain Drysdale
GP
Gerard Prendergast
Bill Slater
MC
Marty Cohen
Michael
OO
Orly Oh
Tanya

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