In the Army Now (1994) on Netflix
Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman lose their jobs at a Glendale electronics store, so they join the Army Reserves for easy money, choosing water purification. Then Libya plans an invasion of Chad.
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Plot summary
Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman work at a Glendale discount electronics store and dream of opening their own shop, but after wrecking a rack of televisions on the job both are fired. Chasing quick start-up money, they join the Army Reserves, drawn in by a recruiting slogan about one weekend a month. Bones picks water purification because his brother was a pool man and the field looked free of combat. They meet Christine Jones, who wants infantry, and Fred Ostroff, a nervous dental student, at water purification training. The group calls itself the waterboys and returns to Glendale, until Libya's plans against Chad bring a call-up. In Chad, the reservists clash with the full-time soldiers, especially Staff Sergeant Stern.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about In the Army Now (1994)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Pauly Shore went through water treatment training himself to better understand the job his character does; the film's water treatment scenes were shot at Fort Lee, Virginia.
- The miniature golf scene was shot at the Malibu Castle in Hawthorne, California, a course that was torn down in 2005.
