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Private Benjamin

CastGoldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Sam Wanamaker, Barbara Barrie, Mary Kay Place, Harry Dean Stanton, Albert Brooks, Alan Oppenheimer, Craig T. Nelson
Year released1980
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Yale Goodman, referring to his mother: "She’ll go crazy." (0:07)

Funeral service for Yale (0:10)

By telephone, Yale’s widow Judith Benjamin asks the host of a radio call-in show, "Did you happen to see that movie Unmarried Woman?"
Host: ”... I do hate to interrupt your free association, but our switchboard is going crazy....”
Caller Jim: ”... you need... a healthy dose of self-confidence...” (0:14)

Private Judy tells Captain Doreen Lewis, "... I am frankly a little shocked."
Lewis: ”You’re shocked?” (0:26)

Drill Sergeant L. C. Ross tells Judy, "I don’t wanna see you stop runnin’ unless you collapse, faint or puke."
Judy purges. (0:32)

Private Gloria Moe tells Judy, "You’re the most insensitive person I’ve ever met." (0:37)

Her father Theodore tells Judy, "Personally, I think you’ve gone temporarily insane."
Judy’s mother Harriet: ”... we told everyone... you were in a mental home.”
Judy: ”People think I’m in a mental home?”
Theodore: ”... because your mother’s had a nervous breakdown...” (0:39)

Colonel Clay Thornbush: "Simulated combat will test the skills and courage of each and every one of you." (0:43)

Private Mary Lou Glass smokes a marijuana cigarette then shares it with Judy.
Judy: ”My husband had a heart attack and died on our wedding night...” (0:46)

Private Gianelli: "Don’t worry..." (0:50)

Thornbush: "After all of 20 years watching us crazy guys jump out of airplanes..." (0:54)

Lewis, appearing intoxicated, tells Judy, "Well you finally succeeded in making a fool out of me..." (0:57)

Judy tells Gianelli, "... I’m uptight, okay?" (1:03)

Clay’s wife Mrs. Thornbush tells Judy, "... you must be nervous about the big jump tomorrow."
”The big T is a great judge of character.”
Judy: ”Colonel, I really appreciate your confidence in me...” (1:14)

Judy tells Thornbush, "I’m not in the mood." (1:17)

Gynecologist Henri Alan Tremont tells Judy, referring to his dog Max, "He gets nervous around new people..." (1:24)

Lewis: "Behave yourself, Judy Benjamin." (1:26)

Judy tells Henri, referring to her first husband Rick, "My therapist said that I had a neurotic need to find a father figure, and he had a neurotic need to find a father-in-law who had a lot of money.." (1:27)

Judy tells General Foley, "Captain Lewis is hung-up on a technicality." (1:30)

Henri tells Judy, "You’ll have to get over this obsession with Claire."
Judy: ”Call it catatonic.”
Henri: ”Judy, you don’t see me getting hung-up on your old boyfriends and husbands, do you?” (1:33)

Her mother Harriet tells Judy, "Rita Hayworth..." (1:38)

Henri tells Judy, "... I feel like I’m sleeping with a kid from The Exorcist..."
Judy: ”Honey, I’m nervous. I’m very nervous...” (1:40)

Henri tells Judy, referring to his ex-girlfriend Claire, "Her boyfriend beat her up. I had to prescribe a sedative for her to go to sleep." (1:43)

Harriet, referring to Judy: "Teddy, she’s crazy again."
Henri: ”Judy, you’re having an anxiety attack... I’ll give you a shot to calm down...”
Judy: ”... I want to be perfectly conscious when I call a cab.”
Henri, referring to maid Gabrielle: ”Look, I slept with her one night when you were acting crazy”
Judy: ”Daddy, Mom just fainted.”
Judy punches Henri in the chin. (1:45)

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