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What is the setting of Robert Altman’s film Streamers?

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Film director Robert Altman stands with arms crossed in a yellow jacket and white cap among crew and equipment on the set of Thieves Like Us. — Robert Altman Robert Altman.

The film Streamers (1983), directed by Robert Altman, is set in an army barracks in Virginia. The story follows a group of army inductees who are waiting in the barracks for their deployment to Vietnam.12