Stakeout
Year: 1987
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Studio: Silver Screen Partners II, Touchstone Pictures
Director: John Badham
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, Dan Lauria, Forest Whitaker
Crew: Michael Ripps (Editor), John Seale (Director of Photography), John Badham (Producer), Jim Kouf (Screenplay), Arthur B. Rubinstein (Original Music Composer), John Badham (Director)
Runtime: 116 minutes
Release: Aug 05, 1987
IMDb: 6.49/10 by 411 users
Popularity: 2
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 14,500,000
Revenue: 65,673,233

"Stakeout" is a perfectly packaged film which has been expertly crafted to successfully achieve maximum results. It has been aimed directly at the commercial market and this would ordinarily mean a somewhat cynical and by-the-numbers motion picture experience with lots of money thrown at it to accommodate the noisy action sequences with very little attention being paid to the rest of it. Of course a good deal of that also applies here, although with the significant difference being a lot more attention has been paid to making this entertaining above all else. What all this amounts to on this occasion is a very engaging and well paced film with considerably more depth of character and story than you would expect and it has a fair share of humorous and perilous surprises thrown into the mix for good measure.