Best Defense
Unfortunately, they're both on our side.
1984 | 94m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Willard Huyck |
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| Writer: | Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, Robert Grossbach |
| Staring: |
| An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait. | |
| Release Date: | Jul 20, 1984 |
|---|---|
| Director: | Willard Huyck |
| Writer: | Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, Robert Grossbach |
| Genres: | Comedy, War |
| Keywords | middle east, armor, kgb, error, engineer, army |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures, Eddie Murphy Productions, Cinema Group Ventures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $19,265,302
Budget: $18,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 09, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Dudley Moore | Wylie |
| Eddie Murphy | Landry |
| Kate Capshaw | Laura |
| George Dzundza | Loparino |
| Helen Shaver | Claire |
| Mark Arnott | Brank |
| Peter Michael Goetz | Joyner |
| Tom Noonan | Holtzman |
| David Rasche | Jeff |
| Paul Comi | Chief Agent |
| Darryl Henriques | Colonel Zayas |
| Joel Polis | First Agent |
| John A. Zee | Colonel McGuinn |
| Matthew Laurance | Ali |
| Christopher Maher | Sayyid |
| Lorry Goldman | Rupp |
| Charles David Richards | Mugger |
| Tyler Tyhurst | American Captain |
| Eduardo Ricard | Garcia Vega |
| William Marquez | Padilla |
| Deborah Fallender | Toni |
| Raye Birk | Sonny |
| Ellen Crawford | Sonya |
| Gene Dynarski | Gil |
| John Hostetter | Quirk |
| David Paymer | Kurly |
| Dennis Redfield | Specs |
| Jerry Hyman | Colonel Kleinman |
| Hugo Stanger | Blevin |
| Tracey Ross | Arab Girl |
| Michael Scalera | Morgan |
| Rob Wininger | Lt. Chapin |
| Gary Bayer | Lubell |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Willard Huyck | Screenplay, Director |
| Robert Latham Brown | Unit Production Manager |
| Everett Creach | Stunt Coordinator |
| Peter Jamison | Production Design |
| Gregg Landaker | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Frank E. Warner | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Pat Suraci | Boom Operator |
| Robin Gregory | Sound Mixer |
| Gloria Katz | Screenplay |
| Sidney Wolinsky | Editor |
| Bo Welch | Art Direction |
| Robert Grossbach | Novel |
| Austen Jewell | Unit Production Manager |
| R. Chris Westlund | Set Decoration |
| Donald O. Mitchell | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Gary S. Gerlich | Sound Effects Editor |
| Richard Stone | Music Editor |
| Laurie Ridley | Still Photographer |
| Louise Jaffe | Script Supervisor |
| Elliott Marks | Still Photographer |
| Dianne Crittenden | Casting |
| Rick Kline | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Victoria Martin | Sound Effects Editor |
| Martin Cohen | First Assistant Editor |
| Richard Johnson | Special Effects |
| Kristi Zea | Costume Design |
| Patrick Williams | Original Music Composer |
| Donald Peterman | Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Eddie Murphy | Executive Producer |
| Gloria Katz | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 15 | 25 | 9 |
| 2024 | 6 | 16 | 28 | 7 |
| 2024 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 9 |
| 2024 | 8 | 15 | 25 | 8 |
| 2024 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 7 |
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| 2024 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 5 |
| 2024 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 5 |
| 2025 | 1 | 10 | 22 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
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