Private Benjamin

Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film starring Goldie Hawn. The film was one of the biggest box office hits of 1980 and also spawned a short-lived television series. It was released in October 1980 in the US and later in February 1981 in the UK. It grossed nearly $70 million.

Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn) is a 28-year-old Jewish woman from a sheltered wealthy upbringing whose lifelong dream is to “marry a professional man”. However when her new husband dies on their wedding night she decides to join the U.S. Army. She soon realises that she has never been independent in her entire life and what initially looks like a bad decision, turns out to be not so bad after all. That is, until her superior officer makes sexual advances on her.