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    Police Academy (1984)

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    Cocky parking lot attendant Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) joins the police force during a recruitment drive where admission standards are relaxed to the point of absurdity.

    His alternative, after a career as a minor troublemaker, is a spell in jail.

    Mahoney leads a group of oddballs, who probably shouldn’t even be allowed to watch cops on television, into police training, where they clash with authority but prove themselves in the end.

    It’s hard to imagine that, back in 1984, anyone would have thought this would spawn six sequels as well as a cartoon series. Yet somehow it managed to strike a chord with audiences around the world and made a star (well, briefly anyway) out of Steve Guttenberg.

    And, while the follow-ups became increasingly puerile as the series went on, the original film produced its fair share of belly laughs.

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    Carey Mahoney
    Steve Guttenberg
    Karen Thompson
    Kim Cattrall
    Lieutenant Harris
    G W Bailey
    Moses Hightower
    Bubba Smith
    Leslie Barbara
    Donovan Scott
    Commandant Lassard
    George Gaynes
    George Martin
    Andrew Rubin
    Tackleberry
    David Graf
    Sergeant Callahan
    Leslie Easterbrook
    Larvell Jones
    Michael Winslow
    Mrs Fackler
    Debralee Scott
    Doug Fackler
    Bruce Mahler
    Captain Reed
    Ted Ross

    Director
    Hugh Wilson

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