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Stakeout is a 1987
1987 in film

Events*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....
 movie directed by John Badham
John Badham

John MacDonald Badham is an American film director....
 and starring Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss

'Richard Dreyfuss' is an United States actor, known for starring in a number of films, television and theater roles since the late 1960s. He is probably best known for his roles in Jaws , The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr....
, Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez

'Emilio Est?vez' is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack , appearing in The Breakfast Club and St....
, Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine Stowe

Madeleine Stowe is an United States actor....
, Aidan Quinn
Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn is an Emmy Award-nominated United States actor....
, and Forest Whitaker
Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker is an United States actor, film producer, and film director. Whitaker won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland ....
. Although the story is set in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
, the movie was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The screenplay was written by Jim Kouf
Jim Kouf

Jim Kouf is an United States screenwriter, director, and producer. He received the 1988 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for his work on Stakeout ....
, who won a 1988 Edgar Award
Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film and theatre published or produced in the past year....
 for his work. Kouf also wrote and directed Disorganized Crime
Disorganized Crime

Disorganized Crime is a 1989 in film heist film/comedy film set in Montana. It was written and directed by Jim Kouf and released through Touchstone Pictures....
 (1989), which has a similar mixture of comedy and action. However, in Disorganized Crime the crooks are the "good guys".

A sequel, Another Stakeout
Another Stakeout

Another Stakeout is a 1993 in film comedy film, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez and Rosie O'Donnell. It is a sequel to Stakeout ....
, followed in 1993.

i>Stakeout is about Seattle
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
 detectives Chris Lecce (Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss

'Richard Dreyfuss' is an United States actor, known for starring in a number of films, television and theater roles since the late 1960s. He is probably best known for his roles in Jaws , The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr....
) and Bill Reimers (Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez

'Emilio Est?vez' is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack , appearing in The Breakfast Club and St....
).






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Stakeout is a 1987
1987 in film

Events*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....
 movie directed by John Badham
John Badham

John MacDonald Badham is an American film director....
 and starring Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss

'Richard Dreyfuss' is an United States actor, known for starring in a number of films, television and theater roles since the late 1960s. He is probably best known for his roles in Jaws , The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr....
, Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez

'Emilio Est?vez' is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack , appearing in The Breakfast Club and St....
, Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine Stowe

Madeleine Stowe is an United States actor....
, Aidan Quinn
Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn is an Emmy Award-nominated United States actor....
, and Forest Whitaker
Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker is an United States actor, film producer, and film director. Whitaker won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland ....
. Although the story is set in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
, the movie was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The screenplay was written by Jim Kouf
Jim Kouf

Jim Kouf is an United States screenwriter, director, and producer. He received the 1988 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for his work on Stakeout ....
, who won a 1988 Edgar Award
Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film and theatre published or produced in the past year....
 for his work. Kouf also wrote and directed Disorganized Crime
Disorganized Crime

Disorganized Crime is a 1989 in film heist film/comedy film set in Montana. It was written and directed by Jim Kouf and released through Touchstone Pictures....
 (1989), which has a similar mixture of comedy and action. However, in Disorganized Crime the crooks are the "good guys".

A sequel, Another Stakeout
Another Stakeout

Another Stakeout is a 1993 in film comedy film, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez and Rosie O'Donnell. It is a sequel to Stakeout ....
, followed in 1993.

Summary

Stakeout is about Seattle
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
 detectives Chris Lecce (Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss

'Richard Dreyfuss' is an United States actor, known for starring in a number of films, television and theater roles since the late 1960s. He is probably best known for his roles in Jaws , The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr....
) and Bill Reimers (Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez

'Emilio Est?vez' is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack , appearing in The Breakfast Club and St....
). The duo are assigned to the night shift on a stake-out on Latina waitress Maria Maguire (Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine Stowe

Madeleine Stowe is an United States actor....
). Maria's former boyfriend 'Stick' Montgomery (Aidan Quinn
Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn is an Emmy Award-nominated United States actor....
) has escaped from a prison following a brawl with several guards. Soon 'Stick' telephones Maria. He has a large amount of money that he secretly hid in an armchair prior to his incarceration. Enter the buddy cop team of Lecce and Reimers who spy on Maria hoping 'Stick' will turn up at her door so they can arrest him. Fate takes a turn for the worse as Lecce falls in love with Maria and the Seattle police suspect him as one of 'Sticks' Allies. The climax is a typical (1980s) action-packed chase which ultimately ends with Lecce and Maria getting together.

Cast

  • Richard Dreyfuss
    Richard Dreyfuss

    'Richard Dreyfuss' is an United States actor, known for starring in a number of films, television and theater roles since the late 1960s. He is probably best known for his roles in Jaws , The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr....
     - Det. Chris Lecce
  • Emilio Estevez
    Emilio Estevez

    'Emilio Est?vez' is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack , appearing in The Breakfast Club and St....
     - Det. Bill Reimers
  • Madeleine Stowe
    Madeleine Stowe

    Madeleine Stowe is an United States actor....
     - Maria McGuire
  • Aidan Quinn
    Aidan Quinn

    Aidan Quinn is an Emmy Award-nominated United States actor....
     - Richard "Stick" Montgomery
  • Dan Lauria
    Dan Lauria

    Daniel Joseph "Dan" Lauria is an United States television and film actor....
     - Det. Phil Coldshank
  • Forest Whitaker
    Forest Whitaker

    Forest Steven Whitaker is an United States actor, film producer, and film director. Whitaker won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland ....
     - Det. Jack Pismo
  • Ian Tracey
    Ian Tracey

    Ian Tracey is a Canadian Leo- and Gemini Award-winning actor. Over the years, Tracey has participated in over seventy films and television series....
     - Caylor Reese
  • Earl Billings
    Earl Billings

    Earl William Billings is an American character actor who may best be known as Rob in the 1976-1977 television series What's Happening!!....
     - Capt. Giles
  • Jackson Davies
    Jackson Davies

    Jackson Davies is a Canada actor. He is best known for his role as Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable John Constable in the television series The Beachcombers, which he reprised in the TV movies The New Beachcombers and A Beachcombers Christmas ....
     - FBI Agent Lusk


Trivia

Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine Stowe

Madeleine Stowe is an United States actor....
's character is half Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
/half Mexican, and Madeleine Stowe is half English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
/half Hispanic
Hispanic American

Hispanic American may refer to:*An inhabitant of one of the countries of Hispanic America.*A person of Hispanic ancestry who is citizen, resident or other in the United States of America ....
 Costa Rica
Costa Rica

Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
n).

Early in the film, Reimers (Estevez) and Lecce (Dreyfuss) are playing a guessing game. Reimers asks Lecce to identify the film containing the quote: "This was no boating accident." Lecce says, "I don't know." The quote was spoken by Dreyfuss's character in the film Jaws
Jaws (film)

Jaws is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United States horror film thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's best-selling Jaws ....
.

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