Weekend Warriors (1986)
Directed by Bert Convy
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
This comedy is set in Hollywood in 1961, where a group of young men join the National Guard in an attempt to escape Vietnam. The men basically do nothing while on supposed weekend duty until they get a visit from the Army, which threatens to ship them out on active duty unless they shape up. Their solution is to hire a troupe of actors to portray convincing soldiers, put on a stage show to impress the Army officers, and make sure that enough winsome nurses are around to satisfy the proverbial lecherous tendencies of a certain colonel.
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actor, friendship, military, military-draft, National-Guard, reserve, songwriter, teenagers, weekend, writing