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.
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
as
Irving Metzman
as Deluca
Jacques d'Amboise
as August
James Tolkan
as Harry
Julie Bovasso
as Mrs. Wareham