Private Benjamin. 1980.
A high society girl joins the army after her husband dies on their wedding night and realises it's not what it's cracked up to be.
Goldie Hawn shows that she can be a great leading lady with this comedy as the spoilt rich kid who is coerced to sign up by recruiter Harry Dean Stanton. At the barracks she is put through tough training by drill sergeant Hal Williams who eventually shares the women in their war game celebration and Eileen Brennan as the senior base officer and ends up being the butt of a joke or two. I haven't watched this in years and forgot how funny it can be especially when Benjamin is explaining she is in the wrong army, or the base captain taking a shower with some blue dye and mispronouncing names at the NATO base.
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