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4.8Joe 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 by 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.
Released: 1986-04-1092 minDir: Michael DinnerComedyBudget: $10.0MBox office: $4.8M
Cast
- Judge Reinhold as Joe Gower
- Meg Tilly as Rachel Wareham
- Cleavant Derricks as Abe Washington
- Joe Mantegna as Pete Peterson
- John Turturro as Neil Pepper
- Amy Wright as Mary Ellen Gruenwald
Themes
- new york city
- dance
- police impersonator
- police officer
- librarian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- romantic comedy
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Michael Dinner
- Screenwriter
- Mark Medoff
- Cast member
- Nancy Giles
- Composer
- James Horner
- Producer
- Joe Roth
- Production company
- Touchstone Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Carlo Di Palma
- Filming location
- New York City
- Duration
- 88
- FilmAffinity ID
- 532046
- Significant event
- principal photography
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- publication date
- 1986-04-11
- title
- Off Beat
- distributed by
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- production code
- 0356
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