| Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach | |
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| Directed by | Alan Myerson |
| Produced by | Paul Maslansky Donald West Anne Kopelson Arnold Kopelson |
| Starring | Bubba Smith David Graf Michael Winslow Leslie Easterbrook Matt McCoy G. W. Bailey George Gaynes |
| Music by | Robert Folk |
| Cinematography | James Pergola |
| Editing by | Hubert C. de la Bouillerie |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | March 18, 1988 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $19,510,371 (Domestic)[1] |
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach is the 1988 installment in the Police Academy series, launched in 1984. The film was given a PG rating for language and ribald humor.
Steve Guttenberg was unable to star in this film, due to scheduling conflicts with filming Three Men and a Baby. Instead, the filmmakers decided to cast Matt McCoy as a new character.[2]
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Captain Harris finally finds the goods he needs to push Commandant Eric Lassard out at the Police Academy: he is one year late for mandatory retirement. But before he retires, Lassard is chosen as "Police Officer of the Decade", and brings his favorite graduates—Sgts. Hightower, Jones, Tackleberry and Hooks, Lt. Callahan, and new graduate Officer Thomas "House" Conklin—to the National Police Chiefs Convention in Miami Beach to celebrate with him. While there, they meet his nephew, Sgt. Nick Lassard of the Miami Police Department. The fun is complicated when he unwittingly takes a bag belonging to jewel thieves containing stolen merchandise.
As the jewel thieves try to get the bag back, and Captain Harris tries to prove to Commissioner Hurst that he's the right man to replace Commandant Lassard, the usual hijinks ensue, including Lassard trying to guess the annual procedural demonstration. When the jewel thieves kidnap Commandant Lassard, he goes willingly, thinking it is indeed the procedural demonstration. It launches a negotiation, which Captain Harris botches, getting himself captured as well. A chase across the Everglades ensues to rescue the oblivious Commandant. At a ceremony at the end of the film, Commissioner Hurst announces that Commadant Lassard will be allowed to continue his duites as Commadant until he sees fit to retire himself, much to Harris' chagrin.
The movie received negative reaction from critics.[3] [4] [5]
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