Basic Training (1985)

Plot Summary

Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss seems to be more interested in getting into her pants than trying to find lost data on the Russians. Melinda resists his advances and begins working her way up in the Pentagon, finding subtle ways of getting her policies implemented by manipulating the slovenly males that populate the Pentagon, including finding a way to defuse the mounting conflict with the Russians

Full Cast & Characters

Ann Dusenberry

Melinda

Rhonda Shear

Debbie

Angela Aames

Cheryl

Will Nye

Lt. Cranston

Walter Gotell

Nabokov

Marty Brill

General Strombs

William A. Forester

General Kane

Christopher Pennock

Major Magnum

Mark Withers

Captain Drysdale

Gerard Prendergast

Bill Slater

Marty Cohen

Michael

Orly Oh

Tanya

Director & Crew

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