
128 minutes
6/3/1994
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.

Danny DeVito
as Bill Rago

Gregory Hines
as Sergeant Cass

James Remar
as Captain Tom Murdoch

Ed Begley Jr.
as Jack Markin

Lillo Brancato
as Soldat Donnie Benitez

Stacey Dash
as Soldat Miranda Myers

Kadeem Hardison
as Soldat Jamaal Montgomery

Cliff Robertson
as Colonel James

Richard T. Jones
as Pvt. Jackson Leroy

Khalil Kain
as Pvt. Roosevelt Nathaniel Hobbs

Gregory Sporleder
as Pvt. Melvin
Peter Simmons
as Pvt. Brian Davis, Jr.

Mark Wahlberg
as Pvt. Tommy Lee Haywood

Ann Cusack
as Bill's Secretary

Jeb Brown
as Young Executive #1
Paul Abbott
as Young Executive #2
Nat Mauldin
as U Love to Rent Voice (voice)
Hakiem Greenhut
as Paperboy (voice)
Roy K. Dennison
as Bum

Jenifer Lewis
as Mrs. Coleman

Alanna Ubach
as Emily Rago

Matt Keeslar
as MP at Gate
Gary DeWitt Marshall
as MP Directing Traffic

Leon Pridgen
as Captain Murdoch's Aide
J.J. Nettles
as Bartender
Thomas D. Houck
as Company Commander
Shelia Logan
as Female Platoon Drill Sergeant
Yolanda Tisdale
as Female Platoon Drill Sergeant
Julio Domínguez
as Male Platoon Drill Sergeant
Ronald Elder
as Male Platoon Drill Sergeant
Robert Head
as Male Platoon Drill Sergeant
Robert Steele
as Male Platoon Drill Sergeant
Kenneth McKee
as MP
Jose Ortez
as MP
Laurence Irby
as Officer
Belinda Fairley
as Female Private

Christopher James Baker
as Laundry Private #1

Sal Rendino
as Laundry Private #2
Gary T. McTague
as Laundry Truck Driver
Alexander Zmijewski
as Colonel James' Aide

Isabella Hofmann
as Marie

Samaria Graham
as Shana Leroy

Michael Haley
as Florist

Daniel Bateman
as Graduation Drill Sergeant
Alphonsa Smith
as Graduation Sergeant Major
Jim Ochs
as Customs Officer
Don Reilly
as Henry V.

Randy Hall
as Henry V. Lead Archer
Ben Wright
as Private Oswald