Offbeat

IMDb link: 0091668
IMDb rating: 5.1 (1,131 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Director: Joe Mantegna, Michael Dinner
Cast: Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Cleavant Derricks and others

Release date: 11 Apr 1986
Release year: 1986
Runtime: 92 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: police, dance, library, new york city, urban setting, wrong side of the tracks, role reversal, partner, friendship

Plot:

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer and friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show, and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks, and he dances.

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