Off Beat
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1986-04-10
Runtime: 92 mins
Director: Michael Dinner
Spoken language: English
Genres: Comedy
Original title: Off Beat
Production Companies: Touchstone Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Judge Reinhold
Meg Tilly
Cleavant Derricks
Joe Mantegna
John Turturro
Amy Wright
Harvey Keitel
Peter Wise
Irving Metzman
Jacques d'Amboise
James Tolkan
Julie Bovasso
Anthony Zerbe
Fred Gwynne
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