Movie
The Pentagon Wars
Overview
From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the BFV (Bradley Fighting Vehicle). There's only one problem. . . it doesn't work. (Spoiler alert: 25 years later ... it does work.)
Details
- Release date
- 1998-02-28
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, War, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- Production
- HBO
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Kelsey Grammer as General Partridge
- Cary Elwes as Colonel James Burton
- Viola Davis as Sgt. Fanning
- John C. McGinley as Colonel J.D. Bock
- Tom Wright as Major William Sayers
- Clifton Powell as Sgt. Benjamn Dalton
- Dewey Weber as Spec-4 Granger
- Richard Schiff as Colonel Smith
- J.C. MacKenzie as Jones
- Richard Benjamin as Casper Weinberger
- Olympia Dukakis as Madam Chairwoman
- Christopher Grove as Congressman #1
Crew
- Richard Benjamin - Director
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