About Basic Training
- Released on November 01, 1985
- Comedy
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
Full Cast of Basic Training
Ann Dusenberry
plays Melinda
Rhonda Shear
plays Debbie
Angela Aames
plays Cheryl
Will Nye
plays Lt. Cranston
Walter Gotell
plays Nabokov
Marty Brill
plays General Strombs
William A. Forester
plays General Kane
Christopher Pennock
plays Major Magnum
Mark Withers
plays Captain Drysdale
Gerard Prendergast
plays Bill Slater
Marty Cohen
plays Michael
Linda Hoy
plays Miss Perkins
Lynn Griffis
plays Reporter #1
John Ochoa
plays Reporter #2
Michael Greene
plays Dimitri
Mark Lowenthal
plays Vladimir
Sam Scarber
plays SWAT Leader
Sammy Warren
plays Shoeshine Man
Donald Fullilove
plays Typewriter Man
Cynthia Frost
plays Cleaning Woman
Barbara Peckinpaugh
plays Salesgirl #1
Erika Dockery
plays Salesgirl #2
Fred Saxon
plays TV Newscaster
Patrick Dollaghan
plays Handsome Man
Gilbert Adler
plays Security Guard
Ruth Jones
plays Elevator Operator
Ellen Hughes
plays Stewardess (uncredited)
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