Off Beat
“The Real Life Adventures Of A Make-Believe Cop.”
Director
Michael Dinner
Screenplay
Dezsö Magyar, Mark Medoff
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.
Release
Apr 10, 1986
Budget
$10M
Country
United States of America
Revenue
$5M
Cast
Judge Reinhold
Joe Gower
Meg Tilly
Rachel Wareham
Cleavant Derricks
Abe Washington
Joe Mantegna
Pete Peterson
John Turturro
Neil Pepper
Amy Wright
Mary Ellen Gruenwald
Harvey Keitel
Mickey
Irving Metzman
Deluca
Jacques d'Amboise
August
James Tolkan
Harry
Julie Bovasso
Mrs. Wareham
Anthony Zerbe
Mr. Wareham
Fred Gwynne
The Commissioner
Victor Argo
Leon
Austin Pendleton
Gun Shop Salesman
Penn Jillette
Norman
Jack Fletcher
Alvin
Mel Winkler
Earl
Mike Starr
James Bonnell
Shawn Elliott
Hector
Nancy Giles
Celestine
Paul Butler
Jordan
John Kapelos
Lou Wareham
William Sadler
Dickson
Chris Noth
Ely Wareham Jr.
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Off Beat
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From the same director: Michael Dinner
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