The Pentagon Wars

Feb 28, 1998

1h 44m

★ 6.8

They aimed to build the ultimate fighting machine... they missed.

Overview

From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the BFV (Bradley Fighting Vehicle). There's only one problem. . . it doesn't work. (Spoiler alert: 25 years later ... it does work.)

Genres

Comedy

Drama

War

TV Movie

Production Companies

HBO

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Cast

General Partridge

Kelsey Grammer

Colonel James Burton

Cary Elwes

Sgt. Fanning

Viola Davis

Colonel J.D. Bock

John C. McGinley

Major William Sayers

Tom Wright

Sgt. Benjamn Dalton

Clifton Powell

Spec-4 Granger

Dewey Weber

Colonel Smith

Richard Schiff

Jones

J.C. MacKenzie

Casper Weinberger

Richard Benjamin

Madam Chairwoman

Olympia Dukakis

Congressman #1

Christopher Grove

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