Police Academy
The new police recruits. Call them slobs. Call them jerks. Call them gross. Just don't call them when you're in trouble.
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force.This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors.Not everyone is there through choice, though.
- Director
- Hugh Wilson
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $81M
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New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!
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Box Office & Release
Police Academy returned 18.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $5M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $81M
- Release date
- Mar 22, 1984
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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