The Choirboys (1977)

movie

(1906)

Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 1977-12-23
Director: Robert Aldrich
Writers: Joseph Wambaugh , Christopher Knopf
Language: English | Vietnamese | Spanish
Stars: Charles Durning , Louis Gossett Jr. , Perry King , Clyde Kusatsu , Stephen Macht , Tim MacIntire , Randy Quaid , Chuck Sacci , Don Stroud , James Woods
Runtime: 119 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Choirboys (United States of America) , Os onze Implacáveis Meninos do Coro (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , I ragazzi del coro (Italy) , The Choirboys (Canada) , Enkelit (Finland) , Ta tsakalia (Greece) , Die Chorknaben (Germany) , Мальчики из хора , Uropatruljen (Denmark) , La patrulla de los inmorales (Spain) , The Choirboys , The Choirboys (United Kingdom) , Engler i uniform (Norway) , Los muchachos del coro (Argentina) , Po zakonu in pendreku (Slovenia) , The Choirboys (Canada) , Os Rapazes do Coro (Brazil) , Garotos do Coro (Brazil) , Băieţii de cor (Romania) , Die Chorknaben , クワイヤボーイズ (Japan) , Los chicos del coro (Mexico) , Ta tsakalia tis amesou draseos (Greece) , Änglarna (Sweden) , Bande de flics ! (France, French Republic)
Plot: A disparate group of Metro Los Angeles police officers - the rank and file - bond over their commonality of being brothers in blue despite their differences. The other thing they all seem to need is a venue to blow off some steam together, what they collectively call "choir practice": after hours piss ups, usually in public, where they again can relieve the pressures of the work day. Despite their brotherhood, not all their lives they feel they can share with each other in the overwhelming sense of what it means to be a real man in this environment. A few weeks in their lives and a few choir practices later are shown, when three of the younger officers, Baxter, Lyles and Bloomguard - the latter two who served together in Vietnam - are temporarily assigned to night duty in Vice under the leadership of Sgt. Scuzzi, who they always assumed was the janitor; as young Proust tries to mitigate the negative effects of his unabashedly blowhard, redneck and bigoted partner, Roscoe out on the street; and as "Spermwhale" Whalen - so nicknamed for being thirty pounds overweight - inches ever closer to retirement and a twenty year pension, it never a certainty he will make it in his continual clashes with the upper brass, especially Lt. Grimsley.
IMDB:tt0075845