Weekend Warriors
Weekend Warriors (also known as Hollywood Air Force) is a 1986 independently made American military service comedy film directed by Bert Convy and starring Chris Lemmon, Vic Tayback, Graham Jarvis, Lloyd Bridges, and Mark L. Taylor. It was distributed by Moviestore Entertainment and produced by Cami Taylor.
Plot
In 1961, shortly after the Bay of Pigs invasion, another world crisis with the Soviets looms in Berlin. A motley group of Hollywood actors, writers, stuntmen, makeup artists, and various studio personnel have avoided being drafted into regular military service. The misfit group, led by Hollywood screenwriter Vince Tucker, have joined the California Air National Guard's air transport wing, the 73rd, volunteering one weekend a month as "weekend warriors" in order to keep themselves safely at home.
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author | Bruce Belland Roy M. Rogosin |
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contentLocation | Berlin Los Angeles |
director | Bert Convy |
editor | Raja Gosnell |
genre | comedy |
keywords | act air force air national guard another world bay of pigs bay of pigs invasion conscription draft fight isolated las vegas makeup artist military service national guard old fashioned pacific island tour volunteer weekend warriors |
musicBy | Perry Botkin Jr. |
producer | Cami Taylor |
productionCompany | Convy-Fimberg Productions Hollywood Air Force Base Associates Ltd. |
publisher | Moviestore Entertainment |