Off Beat

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

Cast

Judge Reinhold

as Joe Gower

Meg Tilly

as Rachel Wareham

Cleavant Derricks

as Abe Washington

Joe Mantegna

as Pete Peterson

John Turturro

as Neil Pepper

Amy Wright

as Mary Ellen Gruenwald

Harvey Keitel

as Mickey

Peter Wise

Irving Metzman

as Deluca

Jacques d'Amboise

as August

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