Joe Gower's (Judge Reinhold) 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.

New York Public Library, 5th Avenue (btw 40th and 42nd Streets) Manhattan.

Katz's Delicatessen, 205 East Houston Street and Ludlow Street, Manhattan.

Times Square (Broadway, 7th Avenue, West 42nd and 47th Streets) Manhattan.

otsoNY Comments: The River Diner was demolished in March 2004.

River Diner, 11th Avenue and West 37th Street, Manhattan.

West Houston Street (btw Mercer Street and Broadway) Manhattan.

Manhattan Bridge Lower Roadway and Bowery, Manhattan.

Bandshell, Central Park (from 66th to 72nd Streets) Manhattan.

Bethesda Terrace (Mid-Park at 72nd Street) Central Park, Manhattan.

Pathway (near Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir) Central Park, Manhattan.