Ernest in the Army

John Cherry here attempts to revive the late-series Ernest cycle. Our hapless hero enlists, only to stumble into a dictator's plot near a war-torn village. He then adopts a lost boy. It just about manages to be a film.

Streaming availability changes weekly. Check the Where to watch panel above — we re-pull TMDB's JustWatch index every week. If nothing's listed, the film is between licence windows.

Our similarity graph picks 6 films based on shared director, keywords, mood-cluster overlap, and MovieLens user co-rating — niche-biased away from blockbusters. Full list: /like/ernest-in-the-army-1998/.

John Cherry directed Ernest in the Army in 1998. See John Cherry's full filmography, where to start with John Cherry, or where to go after you've seen everything by John Cherry.

Ernest in the Army was released in 1998 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 85 minutes.