Stakeout
Stakeout is a 1987 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by John Badham and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn. The screenplay was written by Jim Kouf, who won a 1988 Edgar Award for his work. Although the story is set in Seattle, the film was shot in Vancouver. A sequel, Another Stakeout, followed in 1993.
Plot
Detectives Chris Lecce and Bill Reimers are assigned to the night shift on a stakeout of Latina waitress Maria McGuire. Her former boyfriend, Richard "Stick" Montgomery, has escaped from prison following a staged brawl with his cellmate with help from his cousin, Caylor Reese, who escaped with him in a truck.
More details
| author | Jim Kouf |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Seattle Washington |
| director | John Badham |
| editor | Tom Rolf |
| genre | action comedy crime |
| keywords | break in car crash gas station kill night shift old girlfriend paper mill police station river seattle police seattle police department shoot sleep stakeout wait wound |
| musicBy | Arthur B. Rubinstein |
| producer | Cathleen Summers Jim Kouf |
| productionCompany | Silver Screen Partners II Touchstone Pictures |
| publisher | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| recordedAt | Vancouver |
| theme | action comedy buddy comedy buddy cop crime comedy security and surveillance |