Stripes is a 1981 American war 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.
Within a few hours, Louisville, Kentucky cab driver John Winger loses his job, his apartment, his car, and his girlfriend Anita, who has grown tired of his immaturity. Realizing his limited prospects, he decides to join the Army. He talks his best friend Russell Ziskey, a vocational ESL teacher, into joining him, and they go to a recruiting office and are soon sent off to basic training at nearby Fort Arnold. Upon arrival, they meet their fellow recruits and their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. Following in-processing, each recruit introduces himself and rationalizes joining the Army. One of them, Dewey "Ox" Oxberger, says he wants to lose weight and be respected by his fellow trainees and women in general. While outgoing, John stands out as a slacker throughout basic training, but he and Russell become romantically involved with MPs Louise Cooper and Stella Hansen.
After Hulka discovers that John and Russell have gone AWOL from basic training, Russell confesses his mistake, but John keeps silent. Hulka orders Russell to scrub garbage cans for 24 hours, while ordering the rest of the platoon to do kitchen patrol for the next two weekends. In the latrines, Hulka privately tells John that he is not soldier material. John then tells Hulka that he can kick him out of the Army if he desires, but to otherwise leave him alone. Hulka offers to allow John to punch him, but John misses and Hulka punches him in the stomach, reminding him to learn a lesson from the encounter. During the night, John attempts to escape back to Louisville. Russell awakens, discovers John's absence, finds him attempting to leave base and angrily intervenes, as John had suggested both of them should enlist. Louise and Stella find the two men fighting and drive them back to their barracks without reporting them, and John honors Russell's request for both of them to continue basic training.
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