Stripes (film)

Stripes
An army recruitment poster with the caption "I Want You" featuring a man in military green pointing. In the foreground two blonde women are looking at the poster.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byIvan Reitman
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBill Butler
Edited by
Music byElmer Bernstein
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • June 26, 1981 (1981-06-26)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$9–10 million[1]
Box office$85.3 million[2]

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. It tells the story of an immature taxi cab driver and his teacher friend who enlist in the United States Army with comical results. 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.

The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, and was a commercial success.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Robb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).