Why it may be worth watching
- Off Beat combines Comedy elements in one feature.
- The principal cast includes Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Cleavant Derricks.
Movie
Off Beat
The Real Life Adventures Of A Make-Believe Cop.
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 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.
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Cast
Judge ReinholdJoe Gower
Meg TillyRachel Wareham
Cleavant DerricksAbe Washington
Joe MantegnaPete Peterson
John TurturroNeil Pepper
Amy WrightMary Ellen Gruenwald
Harvey KeitelMickey
Peter Wise
Irving MetzmanDeluca
Jacques d'AmboiseAugust
James TolkanHarry
Julie BovassoMrs. Wareham
Anthony ZerbeMr. Wareham
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Best suited to viewers looking for Comedy. Its shorter runtime also makes it easier to fit into one sitting.
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Themes and topics
new york citydancepolice impersonatorpolice officerlibrarian
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