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Police Academy
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!
1984 · Directed by Hugh Wilson · 97 min · Comedy · Crime · 17 frames
Tagline
The new police recruits. Call them slobs. Call them jerks. Call them gross. Just don't call them when you're in trouble.
Crew
- Screenplay: Neal Israel, Hugh Wilson, Pat Proft
- Cinematography: Michael D. Margulies
- Edited by: Zach Staenberg, Robert Brown
- Music: Robert Folk
- Production design: Trevor Williams
- Produced by: Paul Maslansky
Cast
- Steve Guttenberg as Carey Mahoney
- Kim Cattrall as Karen Thompson
- G.W. Bailey as Lieutenant Harris
- Bubba Smith as Moses Hightower
- Donovan Scott as Leslie Barbara
- George Gaynes as Commandant Lassard
- Andrew Rubin as George Martin
- David Graf as Tackleberry
- Leslie Easterbrook as Sergeant Callahan
- Michael Winslow as Larvell Jones
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: The Ladd Company
- Budget: $4,500,000
- Box office: $81,198,894
- Themes: trainer, recruit, shenanigan, police academy
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