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- 1977
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
- 1977
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
Summary A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after hours debauchery.
Directed By: Robert Aldrich
Written By: Joseph Wambaugh, Christopher Knopf
- 1977
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
- 1977
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
The Choirboys
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Summary A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after hours debauchery.
Directed By: Robert Aldrich
Written By: Joseph Wambaugh, Christopher Knopf
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
78% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
21
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
78% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Aldrich is at his most crudely anarchic and macho celebrating the saintly community service and childish off-duty antics of Los Angeles's hard-nosed uniformed cops, starring Charles Durning, Perry King et al. [25 Feb 2007, p.6]
Some of the jokes are so raucously or goofily low-minded that you may laugh out of a kind of shocked weakness.
[Aldrich's] aiming so low in The Choirboys that he's even lost his technical competence; the movie's not just fetid, it's inept. [02 Jan 1978, p.59]
The film features a great cast and is adapted from a funny and moving book by Joseph Wambaugh, but the result is an abysmal, disjointed mess.
The book's humour was the ribald and understandable explosion of a safety valve; here it is merely an offensive display of stereotyping, sexism and patronising insincerity. A travestied misrepresentation and a notably complete failure.
The movie, which Mr. Aldrich directed from a screenplay by Christopher Knopf, is cheap and nasty without having any redeeming vulgarity and absolutely no conviction of truth.
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Production Company
Lorimar Productions,
Airone Productions
Release Date Dec 23, 1977
Duration 1 h 59 m
Rating R
Tagline From the Outrageous Best-Seller ... The Wildest, Toughest, Funniest Cops ... Ever
