Basic Training
01/11/1985
1h 28m

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
Cast


Ann Dusenberry
Melinda


Rhonda Shear
Debbie


Angela Aames
Cheryl
Will Nye
Lt. Cranston


Walter Gotell
Nabokov


Marty Brill
General Strombs
William A. Forester
General Kane
Christopher Pennock
Major Magnum


Mark Withers
Captain Drysdale
Gerard Prendergast
Bill Slater
Marty Cohen
Michael
Orly Oh
Tanya
Linda Hoy
Miss Perkins


Kenny Ellis
Sidney


Gerald Berns
Steve
Lynn Griffis
Reporter #1
John Ochoa
Reporter #2


Michael Greene
Dimitri


Mark Lowenthal
Vladimir


Sam Scarber
SWAT Leader


Ari Barak
Abdul
Sammy Warren
Shoeshine Man


Donald Fullilove
Typewriter Man
Cynthia Frost
Cleaning Woman


Barbara Peckinpaugh
Salesgirl #1
Erika Dockery
Salesgirl #2
Fred Saxon
TV Newscaster


Patrick Dollaghan
Handsome Man


Gilbert Adler
Security Guard
Ruth Jones
Elevator Operator
Ellen Hughes
Stewardess (uncredited)
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