Richard Dreyfuss
Det. Chris Lecce
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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 ?
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| Release Date | 1987-08-05 |
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| Runtime | 1h 56m |
| Directors | John Badham, John Seale, Peter McLennan, Rob Cowan, Peter Dashkewytch, Richard Cowan, Gregg Champion |
| Producers | John Badham, Jim Kouf, Cathleen Summers |
| Writer | Jim Kouf |
"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.
— kevin2019