Best Defense (1984)

Director
Willard Huyck

Main cast
Dudley Moore; Eddie Murphy; Kate Capshaw; George Dzundza; Helen Shaver

Genres
Action, Comedy

Description
Wylie is a lazy engineer. Landry is a Sergeant specialising in Armour. They have never met but their lives become entangled when Landry must take the tank Wylie designed into combat. Wylie is waiting for his employer to go out of business when he meets another engineer who gives him a disk with the plans for a system that will save his employer. The other engineer is dead moments later leaving Wylie with the disk and credit for the design. Suddenly Wylie is no longer a hack, but the saviour of his company and finds his life is no longer the same.


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