Stakeout (1987)

Directed by

John Badham

Genre

comedy film, action film, buddy film, romantic comedy, detective film, buddy cop film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 457 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two detectives are assigned to watch the house of a woman whose boyfriend is an escaped convict. One cop falls for the woman, complicating their stakeout.

lightheartedfunnyplayfultensewittyromanticbreezysuspenseful

What happens

Stakeout is a 1987 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by John Badham and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn. The screenplay was written by Jim Kouf, who won a 1988 Edgar Award for his work. Although the story is set in Seattle, the film was shot in Vancouver. A sequel, Another Stakeout, followed in 1993. The film later inspired the 1989 Malayalam-language film Vandanam and 1991 Telugu-language film Nirnayam. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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