Title: Stakeout
Release Date: 1987-08-05
Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
High essence:
"And Dreyfuss is adept at playing the put-upon screw-up Chris, who gets the girl -- Madeleine Stowe, in her second feature film, as the seductive subject of the titular stakeout."Medium essence:
Rita Kempley:- August 05, 1987 like Emilio Estevez has discovered Tastykakes.
- And Dreyfuss is adept at playing the put-upon screw-up Chris, who gets the girl -- Madeleine Stowe, in her second feature film, as the seductive subject of the titular stakeout.
- She plays Maria, the former girlfriend of a psychotic cop-killer, Stick (movie-stealing Aidan Quinn), who breaks out of prison in a violent opening sequence.
Low essence:
Rita Kempley:- August 05, 1987 like Emilio Estevez has discovered Tastykakes.
- And Dreyfuss is adept at playing the put-upon screw-up Chris, who gets the girl -- Madeleine Stowe, in her second feature film, as the seductive subject of the titular stakeout.
- She plays Maria, the former girlfriend of a psychotic cop-killer, Stick (movie-stealing Aidan Quinn), who breaks out of prison in a violent opening sequence.
- John Badham, who has directed such action blasts as Blue Thunder and WarGames, is reunited with Dreyfuss, who had the lead in Badham's adaptation of Whose Life Is It, Anyway?
- Get two cops, and you've got yourself a movie.
- Estevez and Dreyfuss are likable and low-key, a pair of mellow, middle-class Seattle detectives who grow on you once you've gotten over the incongruous casting.
- He's never believable, but he certainly is lovable as the married, mother hen Bill who fusses over his single, unstable partner Chris.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/stakeoutrkempley_a0ca6b.htm