Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988) on Netflix
Commandant Eric Lassard is due to retire, and Captain Thaddeus Harris wants his job. In Miami Beach for an award, Lassard leaves the airport with a bag of stolen diamonds.
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Plot summary
The National Police Chiefs Convention takes Commandant Eric Lassard and several of his former students to Miami Beach, where he is to be honored as Police Officer of the Decade. Lassard has reached the age of mandatory retirement, and Captain Thaddeus Harris, who expects to take his place, travels along with Commissioner Henry Hurst and his aide Proctor. Moses Hightower, Larvell Jones, Eugene Tackleberry, Debbie Callahan, Laverne Hooks and Tommy "House" Conklin make the trip as well. There Lassard meets his nephew, Sergeant Nick Lassard of the Miami police. At the airport, a jewel thief's bag is switched with Lassard's identical one, and the commandant goes on his way carrying stolen diamonds.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- René Auberjonois's character in Police Academy 5 was written with the full name Tony Stark, but the surname was edited after Warner Bros. discovered Marvel had registered Tony Stark as a trademark for its Iron Man comic book.
- Filming on Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach was temporarily suspended in October 1987 when Hurricane Floyd hit southern Florida.
- Steve Guttenberg could not star in Police Academy 5 because of scheduling conflicts with Three Men and a Baby, so Matt McCoy was cast instead as the new character Sergeant Nick Lassard.
