Private Benjamin Movie

Movie Summary for Private Benjamin

Private Benjamin Movie Summary

The military has a funny side – and this 80’s movie proves it! A highfalutin girl joins the army and realizes that it’s more than she ever bargained for.

Private Benjamin DVD

DVD Release For Private Benjamin

The DVD for the movie Private Benjamin was released on October 29, 1997 by Warner Home Video and is rated R. Click To Buy

Movie Plot For Private Benjamin

When rich girl Judy Benjamin/Goodman (played by Goldie Hawn) finds herself as the widow and bride on the same night, she enlists in the military to take her mind off her depression in the movie Private Benjamin.

Judy survives a very comedic boot camp and is later transferred to NATO headquarters where she meets and falls in love with Frenchman Henri Alan Tremont (Armand Assante). Would he be the man for her? In any event, Judy is determined to stay in the military, as it is more exciting than her civilian life in the movie Private Benjamin.

Cast of Private Benjamin Film

Pvt. Judy Benjamin/Goodman - Goldie Hawn
Capt. Doreen Lewis - Eileen Brennan
Henri Alan Tremont - Armand Assante
Col. Clay Thornbush - Robert Webber
Teddy Benjamin - Sam Wanamaker
Harriet Benjamin - Barbara Barrie
Pvt. Mary Lou Glass - Mary Kay Place
1st Sgt. Jim Ballard - Harry Dean Stanton
Yale Goodman - Albert Brooks
Rabbi - Alan Oppenheimer
Vocalist at wedding - Estelle Marlov
Bandleader - Everett Covin
Arnie - Robert Hanley
Mr. Waxman - Lee Wallace
Photographer - James Dybas

Trivia for the Movie Private Benjamin

If the movie poster of Private Benjamin looks familiar, it is because it a parody of a 1930s war movie entitled “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

Private Benjamin was nominated for three Oscar movie awards.