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Police Academy plot summary

The new police recruits. Call them slobs. Call them jerks. Call them gross. Just don't call them when you're in trouble.

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. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

Details

Release date

March 22, 1984

Runtime

1h 37m

Genres

Comedy, Crime

Directed by

Hugh Wilson

Country

United States

TMDB rating

6.7 / 10 · 3,117 votes

Police Academy trailer

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Cast

• Steve GuttenbergCarey Mahoney
• Kim CattrallKaren Thompson
• G.W. BaileyLieutenant Harris
• Bubba SmithMoses Hightower
• Donovan ScottLeslie Barbara
• George GaynesCommandant Lassard
• Andrew RubinGeorge Martin
• David GrafTackleberry
• Leslie EasterbrookSergeant Callahan
• Michael WinslowLarvell Jones

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