I Love a Man in Uniform 1993 123movies

Watch: I Love a Man in Uniform 1993 123movies, Full Movie Online – Henry Adler lives in Ontario by himself, regularly visits his gruff and critical father, and works in a bank; he’s also an actor. He finds new purpose in life when he’s cast as a cop in a realistic TV show. He gets into the part, borrowing the uniform from wardrobe, and walking around the city streets. Soon he’s talking to bank customers as if he’s a cop; this gets him in trouble with his boss, but Henry doesn’t care. He falls for one of the actresses, Charlie, and they practice together. Henry’s quirks and his intensity creep her out, though, and she breaks off all contact. He’s desolate. Things come to a head when one of LA’s finest mistakes Henry for a real cop..
Plot: Henry Adler, an outwardly normal banker, yearns to make it in show business and still answers to his overbearing father. When Henry is hired to act in a television police drama, he realizes his big break has arrived and decides to do whatever it takes to get into the role — even if that means donning his police costume in public during off hours. It isn’t long, however, before Henry begins to take the law into his own hands as his violent side chillingly emerges.
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	6.7/10 Votes: 621
	60% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 8 Popularity: 0.951 | TMDB

Reviews:

Dressed for the part ……………
Tom McCamus gives a haunting performance as an actor playing a policeman in a television series, who blurs the thin line between fantasy and reality. While he is good at imitating cops, he is not so good with relationships. After quitting his bank job, the death of his father, and being rejected by his imaginary girlfriend, McManus starts to put his police uniform to use out on the street, impersonating a beat cop. This leads to some uncomfortable situations, and eventually murder. The acting and intensity in “A Man in Uniform” is excellent, I just wish the story had been developed a little further. Still, watching this decent into madness is absolutely riveting. – MERK

Intelligent treatise on Canadian shot U.S. television. *CONTAINS SPOILERS*
David Wellington’s “I Love a Man in Uniform” is about Henry Adler, a bank clerk/aspiring actor who wins a lead role on a cop show. Wanting to get in touch with his character, Henry begins to wear his cop costume in public. Before long Henry begins to confuse the role he is playing with real life. In addition to this, he also falls in love with a pretty actress who plays a prostitute on the show. Before long he becomes obsessed with her too. Listening to a description of the plot, it is easy to see how people would mistake it as a knock off of “Taxi Driver”. I think however that the similarities are intentional. Wellington’s film is a comment on the destructive influence that American pop culture (not necessarily bad pop culture mind you) has on us. The uniform that Henry wears makes him feel important. Yet every time he gets into an altercation while wearing the uniform, he gets more disrespect than when he doesn’t wear it. When he’s in civilian clothes, he’s simply ignored, but when he dresses as the cop he gets yelled at by the parking violator, pushed by the noisy neighbor, and laughed at by the junkie. The only time he gets respect in the suit is when he is literally playing the role of the cop on the show. Even then the respect is phony, everyone is acting.

In the 1994 edition of The International Film Guide, Canadian critic Gerald Pratley said that Wellington’s film “lacked the courage to look and feel Canadian.” While it’s true that the film seems to be set in a generic city, this is Wellington’s intention. When Henry, dressed as the cop, assists a real cop in an arrest, he repeats a line from his TV show: “you want me to read him his rights?” “You watch too much TV kid” is the cop’s reply. An American audience would think that the cop was suggesting that he ignore the Miranda rule because a lowly street criminal is not worth it. A Canadian audience however would understand however, that there is no Miranda law in Canada. Was Wellington being careless or trying to please a mass audience? I say neither. It is important to know that most Canadian produced TV shows are made for the American syndicated market. Henry’s mind is so ingrained in his character that he forgets this. Wellington is giving us Canadians a subtle wink that he knows the Americans will not pick up upon.

The Taxi Driver comparisons come most when Henry falls in love with the woman who plays the prostitute. Yet again this is a clever device by Wellington. Who Henry really falls in love with is the character of the prostitute. Because she is not real, Henry must manifest his love into a desire for the woman who plays her. This of course can only lead to disaster. “I don’t love you for who you are,” he tells her near the end, “I love you for who I think you can become.” Likewise, the scene where Henry finally kills a man is not presented as a cathartic, climactic shootout as it is in “Taxi Diver”. Rather, it is a horrifying moment when Henry realizes just how far things have gotten out of control.

Though the film is powerful throughout, the most effective scene is right at the end, when Henry dies watching his character die on television, solidifying the connection between real and reel. Importantly, Wellington does not show Henry pulling the trigger, leaving it ambiguous as to whether it was suicide or an accident. When Henry’s body is discovered by a cop the next day , the cop mistakes Henry for a real cop and shouts into the radio “officer down!” Ironically this is the only moment when Henry is given any respect while in uniform. It’s almost as if Wellington is saying that this is the what would happen if someone tried to live out “Taxi Driver” in real life.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min) (Spain), 1 hr 37 min (97 min) (UK), 1 hr 39 min (99 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 93623
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director David Wellington
Writer David Wellington
Actors Tom McCamus, Brigitte Bako, Kevin Tighe
Country Canada
Awards 7 wins & 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Ultra Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm