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Private Benjamin
When her husband dies on their wedding night, a sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
15 July 1920
7 February 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 April 1941, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
23 May 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
6 August 1925, Paris, Île-de-France, France
14 October 1924, Santa Ana, California, USA
10 January 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 February 1932, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA
23 June 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 October 1941, New York City, New York, USA
January 29, 2004
Private Benjamin is a comic fairy tale with a delightful performance by Goldie Hawn.
May 08, 2017
It's basically a one-joke effort, but that joke has Hawn throwing herself with great gusto into the role of a bewildered spoilt brat who comes good and her Oscar-nominated performance has huge charm.
August 30, 2004
Mr. Zieff demonstrates great skill in keeping the gags aloft and in finding new ways by which to free the laughs trapped inside old routines about latrine duty, war games, forced marches and calisthenics.
June 12, 2005
Funny, popular Goldie Hawn comedy set in army boot camp.
May 01, 2011
Goldie Hawn gives a charming, Oscar-nominated performance in this lightly feminist service comedy.
January 21, 2015
Funny fish-out-of-water comedy with lots of sexual content.
March 26, 2009
[Hawn's] not so gifted that she can carry a heavy load of indifferent material on her own two little shoulders, without considerable sagging.
November 06, 2005
Goldie Hawn at the height of her powers.
February 09, 2006
Another depressing example of the big-screen gag-string sitcom, it turns exclusively on a plot that grew from a concept that developed from an idea that somebody should never have had - Goldie Hawn joins the army.
May 08, 2017
This is arguably although unfortunately Goldie Hawn's most memorable role.
May 08, 2017
"Private Benjamin" seems coarse, sluggish and interminable as a comedy scenario, but the profoundly depressing aspect of it is that Goldie Hawn appears to be receding as a comedienne and emerging as a boss lady.
May 08, 2017
The pampered Hawn's reactions to rigorous training exercises, her interactions with her superiors, and a not-quite-successful love affair with French physician Armand Assante while on duty in Europe inspire plenty of laughs.