Dragnet

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Synopsis

This is the city… and only Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks can save it in this hilarious box-office blockbuster that pays homage to the famed original police drama of the ’50s and ’60s.

Aykroyd is at his comedic best as the namesake nephew of Detective Sgt.
Joe Friday. Like his uncle, he’s a blue-suited, by-the-rules cop who reluctantly joins forces with his footloose partner Pep Streebek (Hanks) to
rescue the City of Angels from the machinations of a power-mad Reverend and corrupt Police Commissioner. And those are “just the facts” of this hysterically funny action-comedy.

Movie info:

Release:

1987

Running Time:

102 min

Certificate:

Contains mild language, sex references and violence

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Genre:

Comedy

Cast:

Director:

Tom Mankiewicz

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Chris Lam
a fun ride
06 December 2008
Most people remember Dragnet with Jack Webb as the buttoned-up police sergeant Joe Friday. Dan Akyroyd plays the nephew of that character here. He is so much like Webb that he even appears to be channeling him spiritually. Tom Hanks has a great time with the new character of Pep Streebeck, the antithesis of Friday. The rest of the cast is fun, never quite taking the whole business seriously. Dabney Coleman, Christopher Plummer and even Harry Morgan reprising his Bill Gannon role (now the captain of detectives). The marginally fleshed out plot involves P.A.G.A.N.s attacking Coleman's smut magazines and advocating for "good sex and bad drugs" as the key to a great society.  The jokes in this movie fly fast and furious and are aimed at all kinds, not just the lowest common denominator. Lots of fun, randomness abounds. The best way to enjoy this movie is to relax and not take it too seriousl
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