Best Defence DVD 1984 / Directed by Willard Huyck / Starring: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw

UPC 5055025359027

MADE IN HUNGARY

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio: English mono, French mono, German mono, Italian mono, Spanish mono

Subtitles: English, English HOH, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Runtime: 90 minutes

English Summary:

The movie takes place as two parallel plots separated by a couple of years: In 1982, Wylie Cooper (Moore) is an engineer developing a targeting system on a tank for the United States Army. In 1984, Murphy is US Army Lt. T.M. Landry, an American tank commander sent to Kuwait to demonstrate the "XM-10 Annihilator", America's latest main battle tank, which is equipped with Cooper's system. Because of the tank's poor design and shoddy construction, Landry and his crew are barely able to control or navigate the XM-10 before it leaves the proving grounds and wanders into a combat zone during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

Cooper and Landry never directly interact during the film, but the plot shows how the decisions made by Cooper affect Landry's tank.

Cooper, an engineer for a troubled defense contractor, is in charge of designing the "DYP-gyro", a gyroscope for the army's new tank. The company's future hinges on the success of the project. Cooper's gyro fails a crucial test, dooming the company. Downtrodden, Cooper later crosses paths with another engineer named Frank Holtzman (Noonan) who has also designed a DYP-gyro. Holtzman, fearful of what will happen in his meeting with Jeff (Rasche), a deep-cover KGB agent, secretly hides the plans in Cooper's briefcase. After Holtzman is murdered, Cooper discovers the plans. Cooper's co-worker and best friend Steve Loparino (Dzundza) later puts Cooper's name on the plans, and when the "new" gyro works, Cooper is hailed for saving the company.

Cast

• Dudley Moore as Wylie Cooper
• Eddie Murphy as Lieutenant T.M. Landry
• Kate Capshaw as Laura Cooper
• George Dzundza as Steve Loparino
• Helen Shaver as Clair Lewis
• Mark Arnott as Harvey Brank
• Peter Michael Goetz as Frank Joyner
• Tom Noonan as Frank Holtzman
• David Rasche as Jeff the KGB Agent
• Paul Comi as Chief Agent
• John Hostetter as Quirk, Dynatechincs