Stakeout (1987 film)
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Theatrical release poster by Steven Chorney
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| Directed by | John Badham |
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Jim Kouf Cathleen Summers |
| Written by | Jim Kouf |
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| Music by | Arthur B. Rubinstein |
| Cinematography | John Seale |
| Edited by | Michael Ripps Tom Rolf |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14.5 million |
| Box office | $65,673,233 (USA) |
Stakeout is a 1987 American crime-comedy film directed by John Badham and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, and Forest Whitaker. The screenplay was written by Jim Kouf, who won a 1988 Edgar Award for his work. Although the story is set in Seattle, Washington, the movie was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. A sequel, Another Stakeout, followed in 1993. The movie later inspired a Malayalam language Indian movie Vandanam.
Detectives Chris Lecce and Bill Reimers are assigned to the night shift on a stakeout of Latina waitress Maria McGuire. Maria's former boyfriend Richard "Stick" Montgomery has escaped from a prison following a brawl with several guards, with help from his cousin Caylor, who helped him escape in a truck. The FBI asks for their full cooperation in the capture of Montgomery. They also begin to realize that his cousin is helping him get to Seattle. Fellow officers Pismo and Coldshank start playing pranks on Chris and Bill during the day shift.
Montgomery telephones Maria, but the line gets cut off so that Chris and Bill can trace her calls. He has a large amount of money that he secretly hid in an armchair prior to his incarceration. Lecce and Reimers spy on Maria, hoping that Montgomery will turn up at her door so they can arrest him. Lecce is going through a divorce with his wife. He comes home and finds out that she moved out and took his furniture, leaving him in despair. Lecce pretends to be a telephone lineman, in order to get close to Maria. He also helps her brother Ray get a job, that way he'll stop doing criminal activities, and have a normal life without getting into trouble.
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