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Stakeout

Stakeout (1987)

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Though John Badham's Stakeout doesn't flinch in the violence department, the film concentrates primarily on characterization. Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez play a pair of Seattle detectives, assigned to capture escaped hood Aidan Quinn. The twosome spends much of the film on stakeout in a lonely, deserted house; the object of their scrutiny is Madeline Stowe, Quinn's former girlfriend. Pretending to be a telephone repairman, Dreyfuss plants a bug in Stowe's apartment--thereby inaugurating

R, 1 hr. 57 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Aug 13, 2002

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Critic Reviews for Stakeout

All Critics (23) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (3) | DVD (3)

Dullsville

August 20, 2005 Comment
Michael E. Grost
Classic Film and Television

Beats the Lethal Weapon movies at their own game.

August 11, 2005 Comment
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

Dreyfuss and Estevez have true comedic chemistry.

January 9, 2005 Comment
Michael A. Smith
Nolan's Pop Culture Review Source: Nolan's Pop Culture Review

Enough sophomoric jokes about sex to keep it pleasingly diverting.

December 11, 2004 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

One of the better buddy films from the 1980's.

January 29, 2003 Comment
Blake Davis
KFOR Channel 4 News

An adequately wacky cops-and-robbers caper. Sharp dialogue and good chemistry between the actors make up for its routine plot twists.

January 15, 2003 Comment
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

One of the best action comedy films to date. Estevez and Dreyfuss are the ultimate duo.

September 18, 2002 Comment
Clint Morris
Moviehole

An OK cop-buddy film; nothing special here. Not one of Badham's best.

August 22, 2002 Comment
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
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Stakeout is a passable movie, not very good, but exciting and funny.

May 7, 2011
Lucas Martins
Lucas Martins

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One or two fun moments, but overall not the best (or worst) entry into the buddy cop genre. The fight in the saw mill at the end is well done.

May 16, 2007
kenstachnik
Ken Stachnik

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