Your Mother Wears Combat Boots poster

Movie · 1989

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots

Released 27 March 1989 More from 1989 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

An overprotective single mother tries to stop her son joining the parachute unit by sending him to the college, fearful that he may end up his life like his father did. He secretly leaves the college and joins the army, but the mother finds out and makes a bet with him that if she passes the basic training, he will leave the unit.

FR·01

How old were they?

Oldest first
Barbara Eden
as Brenda Andersen
57
Héctor Elizondo
as Sergeant Burke
52
Conchata Ferrell
as Specialist Mononaghee
45
Meagen Fay
as Edie Winchell
32
Annabelle Gurwitch
27
FR·02

The numbers

Computed from the cast above
30years between the oldest and youngest billed
57Barbara Eden — oldest on the call sheet
27Annabelle Gurwitch — youngest billed
43average age of the credited cast
← Back to top
Are you older than Jennifer Lawrence in Passengers? Find out.
Play the quiz →