They're Watching You..."Stakeout"

The rhythm is gonna get ya...

The Story:

Bill (Richard Dreyfuss) and Chris (Emilio Estevez) are police detectives assigned to the night shift on a stakeout.  Maria (Madeleine Stowe) is the former girlfriend of an escaped robber (Aidan Quinn) who may be in contact with her to get his hands back on the loot that she's been unwittingly hiding for him.  All is going according to plan, until a chance meeting off duty leads to romantic complications between Maria and Bill.  Will they catch the bad guy

Here's a fun 80s movie that has held up well over the last 26 years...

And it may have been 25 years or so since you last saw it.

The movie enjoys several fun dynamics as the movie embraces the comedic aspects of the film.  There is the ongoing gags between Chris and Bill and their dayshift counterparts as they make life miserable for one another.

Dreyfuss plays the romantic leading man, for one of the few times in his career.  His storyline is believable and he seems to be having a blast with it.  When he realizes that he's on tape, and subject to the very stakeout he is participating in, the tension gets raised a few notches as his feelings for Maria and his need to do his job cross paths and he has some difficult choices to make.

So if you're in the mood for a good time, revisit this one that you may not have seen in the last quarter century.

Man... do I feel old now!

Final Grade: A-

Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: I do own it, and I don't wait for silver anniversaries to rewatch the film... but I should revisit it more frequently than I do.