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* ShoutOut: To ''Franchise/{{FridayThe13th}}'' films, no less! Upon entering the dilapidated house Chris grumbles "Jason must live here."
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* ShoutOut: To ''Franchise/{{FridayThe13th}}'' films, no less! Upon entering the dilapidated house Chris grumbles "Jason must live "I think Jason lives here."
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* ShoutOut: To ''Franchise/{{FridayThe13th}}'' films, no less! Upon entering the dilapidated house Chris grumbles "Jason must live here."
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Captain Giles finds the banter between the two stakeout teams quite amusing.
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* DaChief: Downplayed with captain Giles: he's tough, but reasonable to the people under his command.
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The story starts with Richard "Stick" Montgomery (Creator/AidanQuinn), a convicted murderer who, along with his cousin Caylor Reese, escapes from prison. With no hard leads the FBI elects to stake out Stick's known associates. After the FBI reaches out to the local cops for manpower support, Seattle detectives Chris Lecce (Creator/RichardDreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Creator/EmilioEstevez) are assigned to the night shift staking out Stick's old girlfriend Maria [=McGuire=] (Creator/MadeleineStowe).
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The story starts with Richard "Stick" Montgomery (Creator/AidanQuinn), a convicted murderer who, along with his cousin Caylor Reese, escapes from prison. With no hard leads the FBI elects to stake out Stick's known associates. After the FBI reaches out to the local cops for manpower support, Seattle detectives Chris Lecce (Creator/RichardDreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Creator/EmilioEstevez) are assigned to the night shift staking out Stick's old girlfriend Maria [=McGuire=] (Madeleine Stowe).
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The story starts with Richard "Stick" Montgomery (Creator/AidanQuinn), a convicted murderer who, along with his cousin Caylor Reese, escapes from prison. With no hard leads the FBI elects to stake out Stick's known associates. After the FBI reaches out to the local cops for manpower support, Seattle detectives Chris Lecce (Creator/RichardDreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Creator/EmilioEstevez) are assigned to the night shift staking out Stick's old girlfriend Maria [=McGuire=] (Madeleine Stowe).(Creator/MadeleineStowe).
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* EyepiecePrank: Part of the practical joke rivalry between Chris, Bill, and the two day shift stakeout cops involves the day shift cops doing the old ink-on-the-eyepiece prank. Bill falls victim.
* DonutMessWithACop: When Chris volunteers to go shopping for them, Bill says he should get donuts, to which Chris replies, "Why not? We're cops."
* EyepiecePrank: Part of the practical joke rivalry between Chris, Bill, and the two day shift stakeout cops involves the day shift cops doing the old ink-on-the-eyepiece prank. Bill falls victim.
* EyepiecePrank: Part of the practical joke rivalry between Chris, Bill, and the two day shift stakeout cops involves the day shift cops doing the old ink-on-the-eyepiece prank. Bill falls victim.
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* VillainOpeningScene: The first scene is Stick and his cousin breaking out of prison. Chris and Bill aren't introduced until the next scene, and the story really gets rolling in the scene after that where they're assigned to stake out Maria's apartment.
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* VillainOpeningScene: The first scene is Stick and his cousin breaking out of prison. Chris and Bill aren't introduced until the next scene, and the story really gets rolling in the scene after that where they're assigned to stake out Maria's apartment.apartment.
* WhoShotJFK: Chris and Bill discuss this while on the stakeout.
* WhoShotJFK: Chris and Bill discuss this while on the stakeout.
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The story starts with Richard "Stick" Montgomery (Creator/AidanQuinn), a convicted murder who, along with his cousin Caylor Reese, escapes from prison. With no hard leads the FBI elects to stake out Stick's known associates. After the FBI reaches out to the local cops for manpower support, Seattle detectives Chris Lecce (Creator/RichardDreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Creator/EmilioEstevez) are assigned to the night shift staking out Stick's old girlfriend Maria [=McGuire=] (Madeline Stowe).
Chris and Bill set up a stakeout in the house across the street from Maria's. They soon discover that Maria is an extremely good-looking young woman. While Chris is impersonating a telephone repairman to put a bug in her phone, they hit it off. Soon romance blooms between Chris and Maria, which forces Chris to conceal his real identity from Maria and his new relationship from the rest of the Seattle PD. Meanwhile, Stick Montgomery is still out there, leaving a trail of chaos.
StarMakingRole for Madeline Stowe. Creator/ForestWhitaker appears as Jack, one of the cops on the day shift stakeout team.
Chris and Bill set up a stakeout in the house across the street from Maria's. They soon discover that Maria is an extremely good-looking young woman. While Chris is impersonating a telephone repairman to put a bug in her phone, they hit it off. Soon romance blooms between Chris and Maria, which forces Chris to conceal his real identity from Maria and his new relationship from the rest of the Seattle PD. Meanwhile, Stick Montgomery is still out there, leaving a trail of chaos.
StarMakingRole for Madeline Stowe. Creator/ForestWhitaker appears as Jack, one of the cops on the day shift stakeout team.
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The story starts with Richard "Stick" Montgomery (Creator/AidanQuinn), a convicted murder murderer who, along with his cousin Caylor Reese, escapes from prison. With no hard leads the FBI elects to stake out Stick's known associates. After the FBI reaches out to the local cops for manpower support, Seattle detectives Chris Lecce (Creator/RichardDreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Creator/EmilioEstevez) are assigned to the night shift staking out Stick's old girlfriend Maria [=McGuire=] (Madeline (Madeleine Stowe).
Chris and Bill set up a stakeout in the house across the street from Maria's. They soon discover that Maria is an extremely good-looking young woman. While Chris is impersonating a telephone repairman to put a bug in her phone, they hit it off. Soon romance blooms between Chris and Maria, which forces Chris to conceal his real identity from Maria and his new relationship from the rest of the Seattle PD. Meanwhile, StickMontgomery is still out there, leaving a trail of chaos.
StarMakingRole forMadeline Madeleine Stowe. Creator/ForestWhitaker appears as Jack, one of the cops on the day shift stakeout team.
Chris and Bill set up a stakeout in the house across the street from Maria's. They soon discover that Maria is an extremely good-looking young woman. While Chris is impersonating a telephone repairman to put a bug in her phone, they hit it off. Soon romance blooms between Chris and Maria, which forces Chris to conceal his real identity from Maria and his new relationship from the rest of the Seattle PD. Meanwhile, Stick
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Chris and Bill set up a stakeout in the house across the street from Maria's. They soon discover that Maria is an extremely good-looking young woman. While he's impersonating a telephone repairman to put a bug in her phone, they hit it off. Soon romance blooms between Chris and Maria, which forces Chris to conceal his real identity from Maria and his new relationship from the rest of the Seattle PD. Meanwhile, Stick Montgomery is still out there, leaving a trail of chaos.
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Chris and Bill set up a stakeout in the house across the street from Maria's. They soon discover that Maria is an extremely good-looking young woman. While he's Chris is impersonating a telephone repairman to put a bug in her phone, they hit it off. Soon romance blooms between Chris and Maria, which forces Chris to conceal his real identity from Maria and his new relationship from the rest of the Seattle PD. Meanwhile, Stick Montgomery is still out there, leaving a trail of chaos.
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* PlotHole: Chris starts coughing and frantically trying to disguise his voice when Maria calls him and he realizes the day shift cops will be listening. But that doesn't explain how the cops, who are actively tapping Maria's phone, can't find out what number she called.
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''Stakeout'' is a 1987 comedy/action film directed by John Badham.
The story starts with Richard "Stick" Montgomery (Creator/AidanQuinn), a convicted murder who, along with his cousin Caylor Reese, escapes from prison. With no hard leads the FBI elects to stake out Stick's known associates. After the FBI reaches out to the local cops for manpower support, Seattle detectives Chris Lecce (Creator/RichardDreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Creator/EmilioEstevez) are assigned to the night shift staking out Stick's old girlfriend Maria [=McGuire=] (Madeline Stowe).
Chris and Bill set up a stakeout in the house across the street from Maria's. They soon discover that Maria is an extremely good-looking young woman. While he's impersonating a telephone repairman to put a bug in her phone, they hit it off. Soon romance blooms between Chris and Maria, which forces Chris to conceal his real identity from Maria and his new relationship from the rest of the Seattle PD. Meanwhile, Stick Montgomery is still out there, leaving a trail of chaos.
StarMakingRole for Madeline Stowe. Creator/ForestWhitaker appears as Jack, one of the cops on the day shift stakeout team.
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* ActorAllusion: To pass the time while on stakeout, Chris and Bill are playing a guessing game where they cite memorable lines of dialogue and quiz the other as to what movie it's from. Bill, in an [[LargeHam over-the-top]] way, recounts the line: "''This'' was not a ''boating'' accident!" Chris, after a moment's pause, replies "I don't know." The line is from the film ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', spoken by Matt Hooper -- a character played by Richard Dreyfuss.
* BeQuietNudge: Chris is unpleasantly surprised when he enters Maria's house to find the very much not-dead Stick there. He just barely avoids getting murdered by pretending to be an ex-con boyfriend of Maria's. To avoid Bill giving the both of them away when Chris meets him in front of the house, Chris knocks him out with a punch to the face.
* TheCavalry: And an aversion of NeutralFemale. The long fight sequence between Chris and Stick in the sawmill ends with Stick getting the gun and Chris seemingly being done for. That is, until Maria, not seen since Stick ditched her down by the dock, pops up out of nowhere and whacks Stick in the head with a hunk of wood.
* EyepiecePrank: Part of the practical joke rivalry between Chris, Bill, and the two day shift stakeout cops involves the day shift cops doing the old ink-on-the-eyepiece prank. Bill falls victim.
* CelebrityParadox: The trivia game Chris and Bill play reveals that ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' exists in this universe, which raises the question of why Chris looks so much like the guy who played Matt Hooper.
* ChekhovsGunman: The hoodlum that Chris and Bill get embarrassed by when, in their first scene, they chase him but fail to catch him down by the docks. At the end of the film he pops back up as the guy driving the boat that is Stick's getaway vehicle.
* MeetCute: Chris winds up falling in love with the woman he's staking out.
* ThePeepingTom: They aren't ''really'' Peeping Toms, they're doing their job! But it still comes off like this sometimes, like when Chris and Bill first see Maria coming home, watch through a telescope as she gets undressed for the shower, and then mourn in despair when she shuts the bathroom door.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Stick actually says "reports of my demise were greatly exaggerated" when talking to his getaway contact. (He was presumed dead after driving a car off a bridge but actually managed to escape and swim away).
* TheStakeout: Chris falls in love with the woman he's staking out. This leads to problems, like when he wakes up in Maria's bed after sex and realizes that the day shift cops have already arrived and are watching from the observation post.
* VillainOpeningScene: The first scene is Stick and his cousin breaking out of prison. Chris and Bill aren't introduced until the next scene, and the story really gets rolling in the scene after that where they're assigned to stake out Maria's apartment.
The story starts with Richard "Stick" Montgomery (Creator/AidanQuinn), a convicted murder who, along with his cousin Caylor Reese, escapes from prison. With no hard leads the FBI elects to stake out Stick's known associates. After the FBI reaches out to the local cops for manpower support, Seattle detectives Chris Lecce (Creator/RichardDreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Creator/EmilioEstevez) are assigned to the night shift staking out Stick's old girlfriend Maria [=McGuire=] (Madeline Stowe).
Chris and Bill set up a stakeout in the house across the street from Maria's. They soon discover that Maria is an extremely good-looking young woman. While he's impersonating a telephone repairman to put a bug in her phone, they hit it off. Soon romance blooms between Chris and Maria, which forces Chris to conceal his real identity from Maria and his new relationship from the rest of the Seattle PD. Meanwhile, Stick Montgomery is still out there, leaving a trail of chaos.
StarMakingRole for Madeline Stowe. Creator/ForestWhitaker appears as Jack, one of the cops on the day shift stakeout team.
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* ActorAllusion: To pass the time while on stakeout, Chris and Bill are playing a guessing game where they cite memorable lines of dialogue and quiz the other as to what movie it's from. Bill, in an [[LargeHam over-the-top]] way, recounts the line: "''This'' was not a ''boating'' accident!" Chris, after a moment's pause, replies "I don't know." The line is from the film ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', spoken by Matt Hooper -- a character played by Richard Dreyfuss.
* BeQuietNudge: Chris is unpleasantly surprised when he enters Maria's house to find the very much not-dead Stick there. He just barely avoids getting murdered by pretending to be an ex-con boyfriend of Maria's. To avoid Bill giving the both of them away when Chris meets him in front of the house, Chris knocks him out with a punch to the face.
* TheCavalry: And an aversion of NeutralFemale. The long fight sequence between Chris and Stick in the sawmill ends with Stick getting the gun and Chris seemingly being done for. That is, until Maria, not seen since Stick ditched her down by the dock, pops up out of nowhere and whacks Stick in the head with a hunk of wood.
* EyepiecePrank: Part of the practical joke rivalry between Chris, Bill, and the two day shift stakeout cops involves the day shift cops doing the old ink-on-the-eyepiece prank. Bill falls victim.
* CelebrityParadox: The trivia game Chris and Bill play reveals that ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' exists in this universe, which raises the question of why Chris looks so much like the guy who played Matt Hooper.
* ChekhovsGunman: The hoodlum that Chris and Bill get embarrassed by when, in their first scene, they chase him but fail to catch him down by the docks. At the end of the film he pops back up as the guy driving the boat that is Stick's getaway vehicle.
* MeetCute: Chris winds up falling in love with the woman he's staking out.
* ThePeepingTom: They aren't ''really'' Peeping Toms, they're doing their job! But it still comes off like this sometimes, like when Chris and Bill first see Maria coming home, watch through a telescope as she gets undressed for the shower, and then mourn in despair when she shuts the bathroom door.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Stick actually says "reports of my demise were greatly exaggerated" when talking to his getaway contact. (He was presumed dead after driving a car off a bridge but actually managed to escape and swim away).
* TheStakeout: Chris falls in love with the woman he's staking out. This leads to problems, like when he wakes up in Maria's bed after sex and realizes that the day shift cops have already arrived and are watching from the observation post.
* VillainOpeningScene: The first scene is Stick and his cousin breaking out of prison. Chris and Bill aren't introduced until the next scene, and the story really gets rolling in the scene after that where they're assigned to stake out Maria's apartment.
