The new police recruits. Call them slobs. Call them jerks. Call them gross. Just don't call them when you're in trouble.
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!
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Character
Comic, classical in form, effortless and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
22 profiled raters. Loved most by The Sinceres; disliked most by The Prestige Hunters.
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Cast
- Steve GuttenbergCarey Mahoney
- Kim CattrallKaren Thompson
- G.W. BaileyLieutenant Harris
- Bubba SmithMoses Hightower
- Donovan ScottLeslie Barbara
- George GaynesCommandant Lassard
- Andrew RubinGeorge Martin
- David GrafTackleberry
- Leslie EasterbrookSergeant Callahan
- Michael WinslowLarvell Jones
Crew
- Hugh WilsonDirector
- Neal IsraelScreenplay
- Hugh WilsonScreenplay
- Pat ProftScreenplay
- Michael D. MarguliesDirector of Photography
- Robert FolkOriginal Music Composer
- Zach StaenbergEditor
- Robert BrownEditor
- Paul MaslanskyProducer
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