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| A new mayor has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes. The main character, Carey Mahoney, is a repeat offender who is forced to join the police academy as an alternative to jail, a proposal by the officer who has been lenient on Mahoney due to knowing his father. Mahoney reluctantly agrees to this and decides that he will get himself thrown out. However, the chief of police, outraged by the mayor's lowered requirements decides that the new cadets should be forced to quit rather than being thrown out. Lieutenant Harris, who trains the cadets, agrees with the plan and employs tactics to make their lives as miserable as possible so that they do in fact quit. Mahoney tries many schemes to get thrown out but it never happens and he can not quit because that would mean prison so he can not get out of the academy. | A new mayor has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes. The main character, Carey Mahoney, is a repeat offender who is forced to join the police academy as an alternative to jail, a proposal by the officer who has been lenient on Mahoney due to knowing his father. Mahoney reluctantly agrees to this and decides that he will get himself thrown out. However, the chief of police, outraged by the mayor's lowered requirements decides that the new cadets should be forced to quit rather than being thrown out. Lieutenant Harris, who trains the cadets, agrees with the plan and employs tactics to make their lives as miserable as possible so that they do in fact quit. Mahoney tries many schemes to get thrown out but it never happens and he can not quit because that would mean prison so he can not get out of the academy. | ||
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1984 United Sates film| Police Academy | |
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| File:Police academy .jpgPolice Academy movie poster | |
| Directed by | Hugh Wilson |
| Written by | Neal Israel Pat Proft Hugh Wilson |
| Produced by | Paul Maslansky |
| Starring | Steve Guttenberg Kim Cattrall G.W. Bailey Bubba Smith Donovan Scott George Gaynes Andrew Rubin David Graf Leslie Easterbrook Michael Winslow Debralee Scott Bruce Mahler Ted Ross Scott Thomson Doug Lennox |
| Cinematography | Michael D. Margulies |
| Edited by | Robert Brown Zach Staenberg |
| Music by | Robert Folk |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release dates | March 23, 1984 |
| Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United Sates |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4,500,000 |
Police Academy is a 1984 comedy crime film starring Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall and G.W. Bailey. It was directed by Hugh Wilson and written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft and Hugh Wilson. It was a hit film that grossed approximately $146 million worldwide, spawning six sequels.
Tagline
- The new police recruits. Call them slobs. Call them jerks. Call them gross. - Just don't call them when you're in trouble
- What an Institution!
Plot
A new mayor has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes. The main character, Carey Mahoney, is a repeat offender who is forced to join the police academy as an alternative to jail, a proposal by the officer who has been lenient on Mahoney due to knowing his father. Mahoney reluctantly agrees to this and decides that he will get himself thrown out. However, the chief of police, outraged by the mayor's lowered requirements decides that the new cadets should be forced to quit rather than being thrown out. Lieutenant Harris, who trains the cadets, agrees with the plan and employs tactics to make their lives as miserable as possible so that they do in fact quit. Mahoney tries many schemes to get thrown out but it never happens and he can not quit because that would mean prison so he can not get out of the academy.
While in the academy, Mahoney befriends fellow cadet Moses Hightower (played by former pro football great Bubba Smith), a quiet giant of a man, after helping him prepare for the critical driving test. After passing, Hightower is very thankful to Mahoney. Unfortunately, Hightower gets himself thrown out of the academy because of an incident in which he lifts and turns over a police car with the hated cadet Copeland inside.
Soon later, Mahoney gets involved in a lunchroom brawl and takes the blame for throwing the first punch, which finally gives Lt. Harris the green light to expel his most despised cadet. Before Mahoney actually leaves the premises, however, a major riot breaks out downtown. The resulting police emergency forces the cadets into real action for the first time. During the riot, a tough outlaw manages to steal two cadet revolvers (one from Copeland and the other from Cadet Blankes). The outlaw grabs and disarms Lt. Harris by surprise, taking the officer to the roof of a nearby building as a hostage. Mahoney, despite his past troubles with Harris, dodges gunfire and climbs to the roof in a rescue attempt. This attempt fails and Mahoney is taken as a second hostage. Just as both hostages are about to be killed, it is none other than Hightower who suddenly appears on the rooftop in civilian clothes. The former cadet, who was working at a nearby florist just minutes earlier and left his shop due to the riot, rescues Mahoney and Harris just in time.
Mahoney and Hightower both graduate from the academy along with the other passing cadets, and both receive the academy's highest commendation ever bestowed upon a cadet for their rescue of Lt. Harris and capture of his kidnapper.
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