Stripes

Stripes1981

Stars: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles
Genre: Comedy, War
Rating: R
Runtime: 106 minutes

Bill Murray was heading toward a career peak on the back of comedies such as this one from 1981, the second film in his ongoing collaboration with director Ivan Reitman (the two went on to make Ghostbusters). Murray plays a chronic loser who joins t… more »



John Winger:
We're all very different people. We're not Watusi, we're not Spartans, we're Americans. With a capital "A", huh? And you know what that means? Do you? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts.

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  • Linda Pruitt
    Linda Pruitt
    One of my favorite quotes from Stripes! We all need to think about this before we start putting people into categories of Liberal or Conservative!
    LikeReply8 years ago

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