

When John throws a punch, Hulka dodges and hits him in the stomach, then suggests that John think about the encounter. In the latrine, Hulka privately tells John that he will never make a good soldier and invites John to attack him. Hulka orders Russell to scrub garbage cans for 24 hours and gives the rest of the platoon two weeks of KP duty. John irritates Hulka with his slacker attitude, and he and Russell become romantically involved with MPs Louise Cooper and Stella Hansen.Īfter Hulka discovers that John and Russell have briefly gone AWOL, Russell confesses his mistake, but John keeps silent. One of them, the overweight Dewey "Ox" Oxberger, wants to slim down and be respected by his fellow trainees and women in general. Following in-processing, the recruits introduce themselves and explain their reasons for enlisting. Upon arrival, they meet their fellow recruits and their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. The two visit a recruiting office and are soon sent off to basic training. Realizing his limited prospects, he decides to join the Army and persuades best friend Russell Ziskey, a vocational ESL teacher, to join as well.
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In the course of one day, New York City cab driver John Winger loses his job, his apartment, his car, and his girlfriend Anita, who has grown tired of his immaturity. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, and was a commercial success. Murray stars as John Winger, an immature taxi driver who, after losing his job and his girlfriend, decides to enlist in the United States Army with his friend Russell Ziskey (Ramis). The film's score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. 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.

Ramis wrote the film with Len Blum and Dan Goldberg, the latter of whom also served as producer alongside Reitman. Stripes is a 1981 American war comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.
