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Off Beat

1986 · Michael Dinner · 92 min

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The Real Life Adventures Of A Make-Believe Cop.

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

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4.7/10Rating on TMDBFrom The Movie Database22 votesTMDB
Judge ReinholdJoe GowerMeg TillyRachel WarehamCleavant DerricksAbe WashingtonJoe MantegnaPete PetersonJohn TurturroNeil PepperAmy WrightMary Ellen GruenwaldHarvey KeitelMickeyPPeter WiseIrving MetzmanDelucaJacques d'AmboiseAugustJames TolkanHarryJulie BovassoMrs. WarehamAnthony ZerbeMr. WarehamFred GwynneThe CommissionerVictor ArgoLeon

Cast

Judge ReinholdJoe GowerMeg TillyRachel WarehamCleavant DerricksAbe WashingtonJoe MantegnaPete PetersonJohn TurturroNeil PepperAmy WrightMary Ellen GruenwaldHarvey KeitelMickeyPPeter WiseIrving MetzmanDelucaJacques d'AmboiseAugustJames TolkanHarryJulie BovassoMrs. WarehamAnthony ZerbeMr. WarehamFred GwynneThe CommissionerVictor ArgoLeon

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