Police detectives Chris Lecce (Richard Dreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Emilio Estevez) are on the hunt for escaped prisoner 'Stick' Montgomery (Aidan Quinn). In order to do that, they have to observe 'Sttick''s girlfriend. One of them falls in love with her.
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August 20, 2005
DullsvilleMay 21, 2003
The director uses the conventions of the action-comedy in so adroit a way that you may even forget the hundred other films you've seen lately about a couple of cops kidding around with each other in between battling the bad guys.January 01, 2000
Dreyfuss and his style are the two best things in "Stakeout," a movie that consists of a good idea surrounded by a bad one.March 26, 2009
Slick, sure-footed entertainment, one part buddy comedy and one part police actioner stitched together with a dash of romance.January 01, 2000
You might want to stake out a theater near you.December 11, 2004
Enough sophomoric jokes about sex to keep it pleasingly diverting.January 29, 2003
One of the better buddy films from the 1980's.January 09, 2005
Dreyfuss and Estevez have true comedic chemistry.August 11, 2005
Beats the Lethal Weapon movies at their own game.January 15, 2003
An adequately wacky cops-and-robbers caper. Sharp dialogue and good chemistry between the actors make up for its routine plot twists.June 24, 2006
Between Lecce's illicit courtship and Reimers' consternation, there are some hearty laughs of a juvenile nature.January 01, 2000
A mature human farce that values characters' foibles over their firearms.