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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304437964
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 630443796X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: August 02, 1993
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 17398
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1980
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
A pampered socialite (Goldie Hawn) is so distraught after the wedding-night death of her husband (Albert Brooks) that she up and joins the Army. She whines, she pouts, she brings the corps down, until, of course, she gets with it. Eileen Brennan received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as the butch Captain Doreen Lewis, Benjamin's nemesis. Funny and winning, the film takes an odd turn when Benjamin is assigned to the international theater and gets involved with a dour Frenchman (Armand Assante). Of course, it's all part of Benjamin's growth as a person, and the part confirmed that Hawn had gone from a go-go girl to a 'you go' girl. --Keith Simanton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Amusing and Interesting Film! Too Bad About the DVD!
Goldie Hawn was hilarious in "Foul Play" when I first saw it all those years ago and she shows another dimension to her acting and now screenwriting in "Private Benjamin". I remember years ago when I first saw this that I laughed a lot more but I guess it's understandable as very few comedies age very well as they tend to be dated to the times that they were written for and this film is no exception.
Thankfully this film is not just a comedy as it still retains its ability to entertain ... Read More
Rating:  - Private Benjamin
The movie was great when it came out and it still is when I viewed it on DVD. I had to wait a little longer because the postman missed sorted it and Turner and Hooch sent them both to somewere on the west side of of Michigan and it had to be re sorted and then delivered to my address.
Rating:  - Cute Goldie Hawn comedy,
but, lets face it she been cute for years, still is. Spoiled, rich, princess, marries, hubby dies on their wedding nite. She's depressed and dispondent, so when better to make a life altering decision? She joins the army, and the comedy begins. Nothing eye opening, just a cute comedy starring cute Goldie. Enjoy!
Rating: - All present and correct
The service comedy is a genre almost as old as cinema itself and, whether it's Charlie Chaplin or Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe in the trenches, Andy Griffith befuddling his sergeants, the Carry On team on the assault course or Steve Guttenberg and co at the Police Academy, has an almost immutable formula that is never, ever departed from: through mildly comic misadventure misfit(s) find themselves in the army/navy/air force/police force, are hopelessly unprepared for the harsh realities of basic training, ... Read More
Rating:  - Private Benjamin
I love Goldie Hawn movies and purchased Private Benjamin to watch (again) with my granddaughter who just enlisted in the military...we watched it prior to her leaving for boot camp, and I'm sure it helped her prepare for her "adventure".
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