Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Joe Mantegna

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 b...( read more  read more... )y 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.

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PG, 92 min.

Directed by: Michael Dinner

Release Date: April 11, 1986

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  • December 13, 2008
    OK time waster. Also see Hero At Large for similar effect.
  • April 9, 2008
    Here's a forgettable one for ya. If anyone gets too nostalgic for the eighties, you can always have them watch this for an easy cure. Great cast though.
  • November 8, 2008
    A film in which Judge Reinhold is an all-dancing, pretend cop and Harvey Keitel is a bank robber he duffs up using his dance steps. They really don't make 'em like they used to.
  • November 1, 2008
    A young librarian Joe Gower (Judge Reinhold) is skating through library shelves, fetching books when he impersonates as a police officer when he falls for a female officer is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance.
  • January 22, 2007
    Come one who doesn't love some really bad dancing?

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