Basic Training

Nov 1, 1985

1h 28m

★ 3.5

Overview

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. Her boss seems to be more interested in getting into her pants than trying to find lost data on the Russians. Melinda resists his advances and begins working her way up in the Pentagon, finding subtle ways of getting her policies implemented by manipulating the slovenly males that populate the Pentagon, including finding a way to defuse the mounting conflict with the Russians

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Playboy Entertainment Group

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Cast

Melinda

Ann Dusenberry

Debbie

Rhonda Shear

Cheryl

Angela Aames

Lt. Cranston

Will Nye

Nabokov

Walter Gotell

General Strombs

Marty Brill

General Kane

William A. Forester

Major Magnum

Christopher Pennock

Captain Drysdale

Mark Withers

Bill Slater

Gerard Prendergast

Michael

Marty Cohen

Tanya

Orly Oh

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