Police Academy

A group of good-hearted but incompotent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.

• Director: Hugh Wilson
• Genre:Comedy / Crime
• Runtime:264 minutes

Cast

Steve Guttenberg: Carey Mahoney
Kim Cattrall : Karen Thompson
G.W. Bailey : Lt. Harris (as G. W. Bailey)
Bubba Smith : Moses Hightower
Donovan Scott : Leslie Barbara

A newly-elected lady mayor of an unnamed city has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits, effectively abolishing weight limits and medical standards. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes. The main character, Carey Mahoney, is an easy going man who has repeatedly gotten himself in trouble with the law by standing up to arrogant men. Mahoney is forced to join the police academy as an alternative to jail; a proposal by the officer who has been lenient on Mahoney due to knowing his father, who was also a policeman. Mahoney reluctantly agrees to this and decides that he will get himself thrown out as a loophole. However, the chief of police, outraged by the mayor’s lowered requirements, decides that the new cadets should be forced to quit rather than being thrown out. Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris, who trains the cadets, agrees with the plan and employs tactics to make their lives as miserable as possible so that they do in fact quit. Mahoney tries many schemes to get thrown out as he cannot quit, as part of the deal made with the officer said if he quit, he was going to be sent to jail. But toward the middle of the film he decides to stay for good having fallen in love with Karen Thompson, a fellow police cadet played by Kim Cattrall.

While in the academy, Mahoney becomes friends with fellow cadets Larvell Jones, Eugene Tackleberry, and especially, Moses Hightower (played by former pro football great Bubba Smith), a giant of a man (who is actually quite shy and keeps away from violence by and large), after helping him prepare for the critical driving test. After passing, Hightower is very thankful to Mahoney. Unfortunately, the quit policy does not apply to Hightower, who gets himself kicked out of the academy because of an incident. After his friend and fellow cadet Laverne Hooks has been racially insulted, an angered Hightower lifts and turns over a police car with the hated cadet Copeland inside. Read more

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