Stakeout (1987)

United States of America

Action, Comedy, Romance

Silver Screen Partners II, Touchstone Pictures

Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, Dan Lauria, Forest Whitaker

John Badham

Jim Kouf

Taglines: It's a tough job but somebody's got to do it!

prison, police, killing, shower, seattle, washington, prison escape, murder, police chase, killer, police detective, stakeout, police stakeout, buddy cop, prisoner on the run, voyeurism, logging

Two cops are given the 'dirty' job of staking out the home of an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend. Chris and the beautiful girlfriend accidentally meet and fall in love. Just as Chris confesses, the convict appears, but will she betray him ?

Reviews:

Author: kevin2019
"Stakeout" is a perfectly packaged film which has been expertly crafted to successfully achieve maximum results. It has been aimed directly at the commercial market and this would ordinarily mean a somewhat cynical and by-the-numbers motion picture experience with lots of money thrown at it to accommodate the noisy action sequences with very little attention being paid to the rest of it. Of course a good deal of that also applies here, although with the significant difference being a lot more attention has been paid to making this entertaining above all else. What all this amounts to on this occasion is a very engaging and well paced film with considerably more depth of character and story than you would expect and it has a fair share of humorous and perilous surprises thrown into the mix for good measure.