Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Charles Durning | ... | Spermwhale Whalen | |
Louis Gossett Jr. | ... | Calvin Motts | |
Perry King | ... | Baxter Slate | |
Clyde Kusatsu | ... | Francis Tanaguchi | |
Stephen Macht | ... | Spencer Van Moot | |
Tim McIntire | ... | Roscoe Rules | |
Randy Quaid | ... | Dean Proust | |
Chuck Sacci | ... | 'Father' Sartino | |
Don Stroud | ... | Sam Lyles | |
James Woods | ... | Harold Bloomguard | |
Burt Young | ... | Scuzzi | |
Susan Batson | ... | Sabrina | |
Cheryl Smith | ... | Tammy | |
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Claire Brennen | ... | Carolina Moon |
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Gene Chronopoulos | ... | Card Player |
A disparate group of Metro Los Angeles police officers - the rank and file - bond over their commonality of being brothers in blue despite their differences. The other thing they all seem to need is a venue to blow off some steam together, what they collectively call "choir practice": after hours piss ups, usually in public, where they again can relieve the pressures of the work day. Despite their brotherhood, not all their lives they feel they can share with each other in the overwhelming sense of what it means to be a real man in this environment. A few weeks in their lives and a few choir practices later are shown, when three of the younger officers, Baxter, Lyles and Bloomguard - the latter two who served together in Vietnam - are temporarily assigned to night duty in Vice under the leadership of Sgt. Scuzzi, who they always assumed was the janitor; as young Proust tries to mitigate the negative effects of his unabashedly blowhard, redneck and bigoted partner, Roscoe out on the ... Written by Huggo
This is not a bad adaptation of Wambaughs book until the end. For some reason someone decided the movie needed an up-beat ending and blew the black ending of the book.