One of my favourite go-to films for when I feel like shit.

The only thing wrong with Stakeout (aside from the fact that it ends) is that no jokes are made about Dreyfuss and Estevez's matching moustaches.

I reviewed this twice already.

Madeleine Stowe <3

Whatever happened to Aidan Quinn?

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I was originally going to watch The Dark Crystal but after about 5 minutes of voiceover and the realisation it was all going to be puppets, I retreated to the safe haven of Stakeout.

But hey, here's an observation that will undoubtedly win me Review of the Year. Stakeout starts with a breakout and ends with a makeout.

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A gem from the late 80's that is in need of a fresh new transfer for blu ray. But, aside from that the DVD still looks pretty good. Maybe one of these days I'll check out the sequel.

Cast and script are solid. The music is a bit outdated but apropos for the time. Love the "Jaws" reference!

A great buddy cop film that doesn't seem to be talked about as much, Richard Dreyfuss displays some really good comedy chops here and it's always nice to see Emilio Estevez! It has a basic story but the script feels fresh, it was really fun with some great moments, one i can see myself revisiting for sure.

Estevez and Dreyfus make for a wonderful odd couple in this buddy cop film that lands more as a dramedy leaning on the comedy than an all out action flick. Doing something original with a formula that was becoming very standardized gives it points alone- the chemistry and pairing of the leads raises it further.

Rewatch. With 1987's "Stakeout", we are deep in the heart of the 80s. This film contains hit songs from both Phil Collins and Miami Sound Machine during the important love scenes between Dreyfuss and Madeline Stowe. The identical moustaches on both leads are odd, and both talk in strangely high-pitched voices. The final like of the film is"What a boner!" 'Boner' was a huge word back then. Dreyfuss is pretty much funny in everything he does. Estevez is relegated to straight-man here. I'm not saying there might have been cocaine around the set on a film like this, but it's possible. As for the film, the title says it all.

Oh my god, I just realised I thought Dreyfuss was Gene Hackman when I first watched this back in the day. WHAT WAS I -- well, I guess to prepubescent/teenage me, all older white men looked the same.

Hackman has never had this effect on me okay. Now I'm wondering whether this is in fact peak Dreyfuss hawtness. Not just the irreverence of his character and the sexual charisma that is not predatory, but god that actual gorgeous face and that wicked beautiful smile and that laugh.

I enjoyed this movie very much.

Despite the total wrongness of Aidan Quinn beautiful Aidan Quinn as very horrible bad man. I did not like that at all. Do NOT want. I'm prolly gunna have to rewatch Practical Magic to balance this badhorrible role in my head.

"That was not a boating accident" made me laugh so hard, and then even more when I read how that came about.

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Imagine this being one of the ten highest grossing movies of the year in 2019.

I saw this movie in theaters and it was one of my favorite movies that year. I have re-visited it many times over the years. Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez play two cops stuck on a stakeout. Movie is part comedy and part action and part drama. The action and some of the comedy have not aged well. Dreyfuss is still fun to watch. Madeline Stowe was at her peak in this movie. Final thought: Still a good movie.....but is not aging as well as I would like.

Ranked 9th of 49 movies on our Richard Dreyfuss Movie Ranking Page. www.ultimatemovierankings.com/richard-dreyfuss-movies/

This isn’t a masterpiece or anything, but it’s the kind of charming (and unexpectedly brutal at times) thriller the 1980s had in abundance.  It’s like Witness or F/X, in that it has more flavour than you’d expect,  but it’s good natured and with a lot more overt desire to entertian than is fashionable these days. I think Emilio and Dreyfuss are a good pairing and Madeline Stowe always was a total dish...It’s just a fun movie.

Some decent jokes and action scenes but the handling of surveillance of a woman by 4 different men is completely outdated.

It's hard to say what's more off-putting about the movie, its voyeuristic misogyny and uncritical reification of the male gaze, or the oh-so-80s mustaches hiding half the characters' upper lips.