Stripes (film)
1981 film by Ivan Reitman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stripes is a 1981 American action comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. J. Soles, Sean Young, and John Candy. Ramis wrote the film with Len Blum and Dan Goldberg, the latter of whom also served as producer alongside Reitman. Numerous actors, including John Larroquette, John Diehl, Conrad Dunn, Judge Reinhold, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Timothy Busfield, and Bill Paxton, appear in the film in some of the earliest roles of their careers. The film's score was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
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Directed by | Ivan Reitman |
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Cinematography | Bill Butler |
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Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $9–10 million[1] |
Box office | $85.3 million[2] |
Murray stars as John Winger, a taxi driver who, after walking out on his job mid-fare and getting dumped by his girlfriend and losing his car to the repo man, decides to enlist in the United States Army with his friend Russell Ziskey (Ramis). The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, and was a commercial success.