Police Academy 20th Anniversary Edition - Steve Guttenberg Classic Comedy DVD.

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Police Academy is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson in his directorial debut, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.[4] Its story follows a new recruitment policy for an unnamed police department's academy that is required to take in any recruit who wishes to try out to be a police officer. The film stars Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, and G.W. Bailey.


Plot


Due to a shortage of police officers, Mary Sue Beal, the mayor of an unnamed city, requires the police department to accept all recruits. Easy-going Carey Mahoney, a repeat offender, is given a choice by Police Captain Reed: enroll in the police academy or go to jail. Mahoney agrees to the former, but plans to perform badly enough to be expelled, since he cannot quit without facing jail time. The chief of police, Henry Hurst, outraged by the Mayor's plan, decides to make the experience so bad for the new recruits that they give up.


Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris makes their lives miserable, though Commandant Eric Lassard wants to give the new cadets a chance. Harris appoints Copeland and Blankes as squad leaders to help him.


Lassard reveals to Mahoney his deal with Capt. Reed to keep him at the police academy for the full term. Mahoney falls in love with cadet Karen Thompson and befriends fellow cadets Larvell Jones, a human beatbox, ladies' man George Martin, gun-obsessed security guard Eugene Tackleberry, cowardly man Leslie Barbara, accident-prone Douglas Fackler and gentle giant Moses Hightower.


Blankes and Copeland investigate a party organized by Mahoney, who tricks them by saying that the party is at the Blue Oyster, a gay bar. The pair plant a prostitute in Mahoney's dormitory, to be found during room checks. While smuggling her off campus, Mahoney is forced to hide with her under a lectern as Commandant Lassard leads in a group of officers. While Mahoney is not looking, the prostitute performs fellatio on Lassard. Mahoney steps out from under the lectern but finds Lassard still present, leading Lassard to assume Mahoney did it.


Hightower reveals to Mahoney that he has not driven a car since he was 12. To help Hightower prepare for a driving test, they steal Copeland's car. After Hightower passes the test, Copeland racially insults cadet Laverne Hooks for an accident. Hightower, angered by the insult, overturns the car with Copeland inside. Harris ejects Hightower from the academy, upsetting the other cadets.


Blankes and Copeland fail to trick Mahoney into fighting them after they find Copeland's destroyed car. Barbara stands up for Mahoney and knocks Copeland out with a lunch tray. Blankes retaliates, and Mahoney becomes involved in a brawl. When Harris asks who started the fight, Mahoney takes the blame to protect Barbara's standing and is expelled.


While downtown, Fackler throws an apple out of a police car, which hits a man on the back of the head; this triggers a chain reaction of violence which quickly escalates into a riot. Mahoney, just about to leave, instead joins the other cadets to pacify the crowd. The cadets are accidentally transported to the epicenter of the rioting, and one criminal steals Blankes and Copeland's revolvers, whereupon the two hide out in the Blue Oyster Bar. A gang captures Harris, with their group leader taking him as a hostage. Mahoney attempts to rescue Harris but is also taken hostage. Hightower appears, deceives the madman, and knocks him down a set of stairs, to be arrested by Hooks.


Mahoney and Hightower are both reinstated, and for rescuing Harris and capturing his kidnapper, they receive the academy's highest commendation and medals. The film ends with all cadets graduating.