Basic Training (1985 film)

Basic Training

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Directed by Andrew Sugerman
Produced by Gilbert Adler
Otto Salamon
Written by Bernie Kahn
Starring Ann Dusenberry
Rhonda Shear
Music by Michael Cruz
Linda Schreyer
Cinematography Stephen W. Gray
Edited by Larry Bock
Distributed by United States MGM (DVD)
Release dates
United States November 1985
Running time
88 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Basic Training (a.k.a. Up the Military) is a 1985 sex comedy film by Andrew Sugerman. It is often considered to be one of the worst films of 1985.

Plot

The film follows Melinda, a female employee of the Pentagon's public information service, who loses her job when she refuses to give in to her male superiors' sexual advances. She then becomes outraged by the Pentagon's "un-patriotic" actions, and takes revenge on them by using her physical charms to seduce the top brass into letting her back into the Pentagon. After being re-employed, she sets out to manipulate them to her will and destroy their careers, thus ridding the US government of what she sees as "perverts", who care more about cheap thrills than national security. She eventually seduces the Russian ambassador into betraying valuable military secrets by offering him among other things "the most scrumptious little breasts" as well as something (left unsaid) which she declares to be the "softest, moistest, sweetest". In the end she is appointed Secretary of Defense as a reward.

Cast

DVD release

MGM released a pan and scan DVD in 2003.

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