Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
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Feb 4, 2020 · Warner Brothers/Getty Images. All seven comedy films in the Police Academy franchise, about unqualified police cadets turned legitimate officers, are available to stream on Netflix as of Feb. 1.
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.
That hardly matters, since the academy in this movie resembles no police academy known to modern man, and seems, indeed, to be modeled after a cross between basic training and prep school. All of the trainee cops live on campus together, in big dorms.
Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenburg) is an easy going man who has repeatedly gotten himself in trouble with the law when standing up to arrogance. Mahoney is forced to join the police academy as an alternative to jail; a proposal by Captain Reed who has been lenient on Mahoney due to knowing his late father, who was also a policeman.
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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.
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 ...
