The Presidio
  • Title: The Presidio
  • Original Title: The Presidio
  • Release Date: 10/06/1988
  • Tagline: He didn't want to share the murder investigation. There's no way he's going to share his daughter.
  • Duration:97 Min / 01:37
  • Country:US
  • Genre:ActionCrimeMysteryThriller

About Film

Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping their relationship.

Movie Rating: 5.9

Total Votes: 334

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Geronimo1967
Geronimo1967
5/10
Mark Harmon is "Jay", a former military policeman turned cop who is called upon to investigate a series of murders that reintroduce him to his former CO "Col. Caldwell" (Sean Connery) with whom he doesn't especially get along. It doesn't help when he starts to date the colonel's independently minded daughter "Donna" (Meg Ryan) but can they put...
GenerationofSwine
GenerationofSwine
10/10
Occasionally my mother would really get into a movie, choose a quote as a favorite, and then repeat it constantly in a cartoonish exaggeration of whoever said it in the film. The Persidio is one of those films she latched onto, and for years after we were subjected to her Sean Connery impression as she threatened to beat us up using only her...
kevin2019
kevin2019
5/10
"The Presidio" is an interesting diversion that has an immediately intriguing and literally explosive opening gambit which is eye catching and it easily grabs your full attention, but then the pace quickly eases up out of pure necessity and the murder of Patti Jean Lynch loses all sense of urgency and it is eventually relegated to becoming a...