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Stripes

Stripes is a 1981 American war comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman. Within a few hours, New York City cab driver John Winger loses his job, his apartment, his car, and his girlfriend Anita, who has finally tired of his immaturity. Realizing that he has few prospects, he decides to join the Army. He talks his best friend Russell Ziskey, a vocational teacher of English as a second language, into joining him, and they go to a recruiting office and are soon sent off to basic training near Louisville, Kentucky.

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