Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

"Hold everything! The cadets are dropping in on Miami Beach for an all new adventure."

1988 1h 30m EN

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The Police Academy misfits travel to Miami Beach for Commandant Lassard to be honored with a prestigious lifetime award pending his retirement. Things take a turn when Lassard unknowingly ends up in possession of stolen diamonds from a jewel heist.

“Hold everything! The cadets are dropping in on Miami Beach for an all new adventure.”

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Cast

Bubba Smith
Hightower
David Graf
Tackleberry
Michael Winslow
Jones
Leslie Easterbrook
Callahan
Marion Ramsey
Hooks
Janet Jones
Kate
Lance Kinsey
Proctor
Matt McCoy
Nick

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Alan Myerson
Writers: Stephen Curwick
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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90 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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38 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Police Academy Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Alan Myerson, shot by James Pergola. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Robert Folk. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Hubert de La Bouillerie shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

AWARDS

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Bubba Smith and David Graf and Michael Winslow carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

ERA

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Marketing tagline: "Hold everything! The cadets are dropping in on Miami Beach for an all new adventure.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Alan Myerson directs. James Pergola behind the camera. Robert Folk scores. Hubert de La Bouillerie cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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190 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
238 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Police Academy Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Alan Myerson, shot by James Pergola. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Robert Folk. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Hubert de La Bouillerie shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Bubba Smith and David Graf and Michael Winslow carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Hold everything! The cadets are dropping in on Miami Beach for an all new adventure.".
9IMDB entry: tt0095882 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: James Pergola
Original score: Robert Folk
Editing: Hubert de La Bouillerie
Production design: Trevor Williams
Makeup / hair: Mary Ann Valdes
Sound: Dick Weaver
Stunt coordinator: Gary Hymes
Runtime: 90 min · 1h 30m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $14,000,000
Box office: $19,510,371
Return: 139% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988)

Part of

Police Academy Collection

A series of American comedy films, the first six of which were made in the 1980s. The seventh and to date last installment, Mission to Moscow, was released in 1994. The series opened with Police Academy (1984) which started with the premise that a new mayor had announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits. The movie followed a group of misfit recruits in their attempts to prove themselves capable of being police officers. The main character, Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), was a repeat offender who was forced to join the police academy as punishment.

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Potential Kermode2017-02-11
★ 5/10
Those Academy imbeciles are back! ...and this time there are plenty of golf balls to slip on. Never before have I laughed so long and so hard at a man slipping on a golf ball. Captain Harris lost his trouser because the silly man who makes the sounds made an amusing beeping noise. This deeply complex and inventive script hits all the right targets and the viewer will often find themselves gasping for air and choking on their own tonsil due to incessant laughing. A fat man eats a donut and the jam squirts out. I cracked my kidney laughing. I've never been so amused ever - the donut had jam in it and the pressure of the bite caused the jam to break free of its outer casing.
Filipe Manuel Neto2022-10-15
★ 2/10
A shot in the feet: this film marks, for me, the decline of the franchise. In the fifth film in the “Police Academy” franchise, we follow the characters that everyone already knows on a trip to Miami for a national police convention where veteran Commander Lassard, about to retire and leave the command of the academy, will be rewarded. The script is decent enough, but we can't ignore that, after four films, the comic material is worn out and doesn't make us laugh like it used to. The production's solution was to change location, which was not as effective as one might think: in other films we had already had lots of beach jokes. The film retains many familiar faces from everyone who has seen the previous films. However, it was unable to bring together the entire cast, not counting Steve Guttenberg, Tim Kazurinsky and Bob Goldthwait, actors who chose not to be part of this project and who had their relevance (especially Guttenberg) in the previous films. As a direct consequence, the film pays more attention to actors who had remained in the shadows, such as Bubba Smith, who performs well here. Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, George Graf and Marion Ramsey are also present in this film, but they limit themselves to doing more than they had before, and their collaboration is nothing new. George Gaynes also has more protagonism here, and the actor exploited it very well, but it is the duo formed by Lance Kinsey and G. W. Bailey that makes us laugh and steals all the attention thanks to their mischief. Matt McCoy was particularly weak and doesn't deserve to continue in the franchise. Technically, the film retains many aspects of the previous films in the franchise, such as the costumes, cinematography and effects. It takes advantage of the aerial scenes and landscapes of Miami, with its hotels and wetlands, but I got the feeling that the location was chosen to allow as many girls in bikinis as possible. The settings are decent, although sometimes there are problems (that plane door that is easily ripped off and proves to be light is, of course, fake). The film is not long, wastes no time and was well edited, but the final scene in the swamp is disappointing: I think it was the third time that a “Police Academy” film ended with a random chase, and what was done here it is virtually a copy of a similar scene in another film in the franchise.
GenerationofSwine2023-01-11
★ 4/10
I don't know. As an adult, yeah, this is a HORRIBLE installment. But as a kid, I actually thought it was still pretty good, still pretty funny, still slap stick and stupid, and everything I wanted from a Police Academy film. But... as an adult, it's not as funny as I thought it was as a kid. So I am kind of torn, there are certainly FAR better Police Academy films (and I'm going to give them 10 of 10 because fun movies deserve it) but this one... this one a lot of the humor that still holds true in the others fell flat.