off beat

Director: michael dinner

Actor: judge reinhold,meg tilly,cleavant derricks,joe mantegna

Data Published: Fri Apr 11 1986

Genres: Comedy,Crime,Romance

Key Words: police,dance,library,new york city,urban setting

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091668/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_Beat_(1986_film)

Description: Off Beat is a movie starring Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, and Cleavant Derricks. Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer and friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance...

Plot: Joe Gower is a likable librarian who glides around his job on roller skates. He has a strict boss, Mr. Pepper, and a good friend who's a cop, Abe Washington. A mistake he makes inadvertently messes up Washington's undercover work. Joe now owes him a favor, but is unprepared for what Washington wants. A police charity event needs officers to dress in drag, but because Washington wants no part of that, he asks Joe to take his place. A reluctant Joe decides to go through with the audition, expecting to be so bad that he won't be cast in the show. When he goes there and meets an attractive policewoman, Rachel Wareham, it changes everything. Joe not only does the show, he continues to keep from Rachel the fact that he's not a real cop. As luck would have it, Joe finds himself in the midst of actual crimes. He encounters criminals, like bank robber Mickey, and is caught in a crossfire as to which would be worse, being exposed as someone impersonating a police officer or being shot by a crook.