The read
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,440 1990s comedy movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.
Ratings
IMDb6.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes13%
Metacritic44/100
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
327 audience votes
Key crew
- Penny MarshallDirector
- Jim BurnsteinScreenplay
- Hans ZimmerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Danny DeVitoBill Rago
- Gregory HinesSergeant Cass
- James RemarCaptain Tom Murdoch
- Ed Begley Jr.Jack Markin
- Lillo BrancatoSoldat Donnie Benitez
- Stacey DashSoldat Miranda Myers
- Kadeem HardisonSoldat Jamaal Montgomery
- Cliff RobertsonColonel James
- Richard T. JonesPvt. Jackson Leroy
- Khalil KainPvt. Roosevelt Nathaniel Hobbs
- Gregory SporlederPvt. Melvin
- Peter SimmonsPvt. Brian Davis, Jr.
