Stripes (film)

Stripes
Stripes
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ivan Reitman
Written by	Len Blum; Dan Goldberg; Harold Ramis;
Produced by	Ivan Reitman; Dan Goldberg;
Starring	Bill Murray; Harold Ramis; Warren Oates; P. J. Soles; John Candy;
Cinematography	Bill Butler
Edited by	Harry Keller; Michael Luciano; Eva Ruggiero;
Music by	Elmer Bernstein
Production; company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	June 26, 1981;
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$9–10 million
Box office	$85.3 million

Stripes is a 1981 American action comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. J. Soles, Sean Young, and John Candy. Ramis wrote the film with Len Blum and Dan Goldberg, the latter of whom also served as producer alongside Reitman. It tells the story of an immature taxi cab driver and his teacher friend who enlist in the United States Army with comical results. Numerous actors, including John Larroquette, John Diehl, Conrad Dunn, Judge Reinhold, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Timothy Busfield, and Bill Paxton, appear in the film in some of the earliest roles of their careers. The film's score was composed by Elmer Bernstein.

The film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, and was a commercial success.

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