The Choirboys

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Thomas M you want a 70's guy movie , make some popcorn and here you go, this film is nothing like the book so don't read the book first . Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Drunk policemen in Los Angeles is the theme of this cult comedy that has grown in fan base over the years. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Based on a novel by Sam Wambugh, a retired police office, this could have been a funnier film. Instead we get a film about a group of police officers who are racist, sexist, homophic and get drunk just about every night just as they are about to get out to do the night shift. It also makes police brutality look funny. Besides drinking some of their activities include going to prostitutes. Just what we need, an offensive group of characters. The film seems to think it's a morality play as well when one of the older policemen is threatened with losing his pension fund just before reitriement and gets caught up a mess with the officers one night He eventually gets back at those who are trying to make him lose his pension. Overall, just an unpleasant film to watch even with and excellent cast in early roles such as Lou Gosset Jr James Wood and Charles Durning. it most liilely could have been a much better picture Made in 1977. As a footnote it was a failure at the box office and with the critics at the time as well. The author of the novel made sure his name wouldn't appear in the credits. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Rather repellent comedy about the shenanigans about a group of LA cops from the usually reliable director, Robert Aldrich. What made the film so repellent is the casual racism, homophobia, sexism and just about every other ism you can think being used as a source of comedy. The film does feature an amazing cast of of actors, many before they were famous, including Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Randy Quaid, Don Stroud, James Woods, Burt Young, Charles Haid, Blair Brown, and Vic Tayback. If the attitudes of the police depicted in this film is to believed, you probably get a good picture of why many segments of the community have so much hatred towards cops. I sincerely hope that the casual racism, sexism and so on depicted in this film is not accurate, but I do wonder if this film is an inadvertently accurate time capsule representing attitudes of the time. However, author Joseph Wambaugh, who's novel this is based on and who was a LA police officer for 14 years, disowned this film and fought to have his name removed from it, so hopefully this is not what it ws really like. But putting these offensive elements aside, the film really want all that entertaining or compelling or feature any interesting characters. Told essentially through a series of "funny" vignettes, it's a meandering film that seemed to lack any kind of real dramatic arc. And the "comedy" was never really all that funs. Overall, this film is really only worth watching as a time capsule. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member 'Police Academy' joins 'The Breakfast Club'--EXCELLENT Example of 1970's Black Comedies!! Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A bit dated but involving version of Wambaugh's novel. Excellent performances from a great cast of character actors. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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