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From Oscar® -nominated Ron Shelton (Best Writing Original Screenplay Bull Durham 1989) this hot action comedy is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat...and in stitches. Starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE redefines the buddy-cop genre. In Hollywood no one is who they really want to be. Veteran police detective Joe Gavilan (Ford) and his rookie partner K.C. Calden (Hartnett) are no exception. Between Joe's struggling real estate business and K.C.'s fledgling acting career and yoga instruction they've got a major murder case to solve. With both Internal Affairs and their main suspect on their ta
From Oscar® -nominated Ron Shelton (Best Writing Original Screenplay Bull Durham 1989) this hot action comedy is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat...and in stitches. Starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE redefines the buddy-cop genre. In Hollywood no one is who they really want to be. Veteran police detective Joe Gavilan (Ford) and his rookie partner K.C. Calden (Hartnett) are no exception. Between Joe's struggling real estate business and K.C.'s fledgling acting career and yoga instruction they've got a major murder case to solve. With both Internal Affairs and their main suspect on their tails Joe and K.C. have to infiltrate the dangerous world of the hip-hop recording industry. Juggling two careers proves to be a comical adventure with Joe and K.C. desperate to stay alive long enough to catch their big break.System Requirements:Running Time: 115 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396009271
Harrison Ford lends his solid, perpetually disgruntled presence to Hollywood Homicide, an action comedy in which he's paired with the squinty eyes and peaches-and-cream complexion of Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down, O). Radical French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard would appreciate this complete deconstruction of the buddy-cop flick genre; basic cinematic elements (mismatched partners, a hard-ass superior riding them, arguments about who's going to drive, arguments about intuition vs. diligent detective work, the bad cop who killed Hartnett's father, etc.) have been scrambled and slapped together with no concern for coherence, making clear their innately artificial nature. Sex scenes and car chases come out of nowhere and disappear without consequence, providing arbitrary visual stimulus. During shootouts, it's impossible to tell who got killed or why, underscoring a basic doubt about the purpose of making movies like Hollywood Homicide. It's rare for a mainstream movie to be so daringly (if perhaps accidentally) avant-garde. --Bret Fetzer
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Release date: 7 October 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9781404931367 UPC: 043396009271
Tags: Comedy (2), Action (2), Crime (2), Murder (2), Police (2), Yoga Instructor (1), Recording Studio (1), Real Estate Broker (1), Grauman's Chinese Theater (1), Buddy Cop (1), Record Producer (1), Police Surveillance (1), Radio Broadcasting (1), Police Detective (1), For PC (1), Yoga (1), Motown (1), 2000s (1), 2003 (1), Movies (1)
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