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Police Academy is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson in his directorial debut, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Its storyline follows a new recruitment policy for an unnamed city's police academy to take in any recruit who wishes to apply and study to become a police officer.
The head of the academy is sort of like the headmaster. The campus is green and leafy and peaceful and altogether unlike, I suspect, the training experience undergone by any real police officers. In a movie this bad, one plot element is really idiotic. It involves the casting of Bubba Smith as a giant black recruit who only has to look at a guy ...
Police Academy. 1984 1h 36m R. 6.7 (138K) Rate. 41 Metascore. The mayor declares that anyone can enroll in the police academy irrespective of their physical condition or education level, and many misfits descend on the academy, including a young troublemaker who's forced to apply or go to jail.
The film that started it all for the extremely successful sequels, takes a wickedly offbeat look at law, disorder and justice. The Los Angeles Times praises the "one good belly laugh after another in the raucous tradition of 'Animal House' and 'Porky's'...." Starring Steve Guttenberg ("Three Men and a Baby," "Cocoon"), George Gaynes ("Tootsie") and Golden Globe-nominee Kim Cattrall ("Sex and ...
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.
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The film that started it all for the extremely successful sequels, takes a wickedly offbeat look at law, disorder and justice. The Los Angeles Times praises the "one good belly laugh after another in the raucous tradition of 'Animal House' and 'Porky's'...." Starring Steve Guttenberg ("Three Men and a Baby," "Cocoon"), George Gaynes ("Tootsie") and Golden Globe-nominee Kim Cattrall ("Sex and ...
Brief Synopsis. When the mayor of a crime-ridden city loosens the restrictions on entering the police academy in order to get more cops on the street, all manner of oddball characters enlist to join the force. Among the cadets are suave Carey Mahoney, hulking Moses Hightower, beautiful Karen Thompson and sound effects-generating Larvell Jones,...
