Your Mother Wears Combat Boots

Brenda Andersen (Barbara Eden) is an overprotective single mother from Iowa, who does not want her 18-year-old son Jimmy (David Kaufman) to follow in the footsteps of her late husband (who died in a parachute accident in Vietnam) by becoming an Airborne paratrooper in the US Army. Instead she sends him off to college, and then moves to Alaska to take up a new job. But once she moves, Jimmy leaves college and enlists in the army. He initially keeps this a secret, and only tells her after he's completed basic training and is about to begin Airborne parachute training at Fort Benning, Georgia.Brenda drives down to Georgia in an attempt to stop him, but when she arrives Jimmy has already entered Fort Benning. So she assumes the identity of an AWOL Airborne trainee named Susan Zimmel in order to enter the base and try to persuade Jimmy to leave. When Jimmy refuses to quit, she makes a deal with him – if she can make it through the Airborne training course herself, then he will not do the parachute jump at the end of the course, and will leave the army and return to college.Brenda struggles to adjust to the strict military regimen and make it through the tough and physically demanding Airborne training course. Her fear of heights also causes her difficulties. This leads to a number of comic incidents, though her drill instructor, Sgt. Burke (Héctor Elizondo), fails to see the funny side. But with a little help from other trainees in her squad, Brenda perseveres, determined to get Jimmy to leave the army.In the end, however, the experience leads Brenda to realize that Jimmy needs to complete the training in order to develop a closer bond with his late father, and gives him her blessing to complete the final qualifying parachute jump. She then conquers her fear of heights and also makes the jump herself.This movie is hard to find, but is available on DVD.

Awesome movie, love when the soldier is coming up the steps when she is looking for Jimmy and ou can hear him say "Hey baby, you looking Gooood" 😍

I simply loved that movie. It is very funny and Barbara Eden shows her comedic talent once more. As for the plot, don't expect too much, but it is a very nice movie if you just want to have fun and laugh.

I was an extra in this movie . I was in basic training infantry school at the time. Drill Sgts. loaded us on buses not telling us what we were doing that day, and we got the day off .We just sat on the bleachers in the back round and did some marching scenes. A much needed day of rest. 30 years later and this is the first time I have seen the movie. Always tried to find it in video stores but never any luck.

I saw this movie on tv years ago and finally have my own copy. A fun, silly, feel good family movie!!

I saw this movie a long time ago and really enjoyed it. Then, when I saw it was finally available on DVD, I grabbed it. When Barbara Eden followed her son into the service because she couldn't cut the ties, it was hilarious watching her go through training and finally graduating. I would recommend this for anyone who is a true Barbara Eden fan.

This movie is really good and funny. My mom loves this movie.

Decent recording and transfer to DVD (it has not been digitally remastered). But it was a made-for-TV movie from the 1980s so you can't expect much. Would not play on one of our DVD players, but worked fine on the newer player.

I saw this on T.V. years ago and really enjoyed it. I had recorded it on VHS, but don't know where that went. When I saw it was on DVD, I had to buy. It's a cute, yet predictable movie, that was fun to see again.

I am a big Barbara Eden fan so I love it

Um zu verhindern das der Sohn Fallschirmspringer wird schleicht sich seine Mutter Brenda beim Militär ein und erlebt dort das es nicht so einfach ist ihrem Ziel nachzukommen.Ich fand den Film sehr unterhaltsam, eine einfach gestrickte Militärkomödie nicht mehr und nicht weniger :-)Wäre schön wenn die DVD auch auf Deutsch zu erhalten wäre!