Police Academy (1984)

Directed by

Hugh Wilson

Genre

comedy film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 3,024 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A city's police academy has to accept any recruit who applies. A group of misfits go through training and cause a lot of trouble along the way.

sillychaoticlightheartedgoofyfast-pacedfeel-goodslapstick

What happens

Police Academy is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson in his directorial debut, and distributed by Warner Bros. 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 film stars Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall and G. W. Bailey. The film was produced by The Ladd Company. It premiered on March 23, 1984. It grossed $8.5 million in its opening weekend and more than $149 million worldwide, against a budget of $4.8 million, and remains the most successful film of the series as of 2022. The film spawned six sequels in the Police Academy franchise, and is the only film in the franchise to be rated R (due to nudity) by the MPAA. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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