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Movie Description
Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbeck, a disillusioned former Secret Service agent who has hit rock bottom as a detective for hire. His marriage is on the rocks, his adolescent daughter has a smart mouth, he drinks too much, and he's broke. Hallenbeck takes an assignment protecting Cory (Halle Berry), the stripper girlfriend of Jimmy Dix (Damon Wayans), a former professional football player banned from the league for gambling. When Cory is murdered gangland style, Hallenbeck teams up with the former football hero to find the killers. Their search leads them deep into the world of professional football, politics, legalized gambling and sadistic hitmen. LETHAL WEAPON screenwriter Shane Black wrote the script for this violent, action-packed thriller directed by Tony Scott (TOP GUN, TRUE ROMANCE). Willis plays Hallenbeck with a sadistic glint in his eye and a deathwish. Wayans is convincing as Dix, an athlete who loses everything when he's banned from the game he loves and turns to drugs for consolation.
Synopsis
Joe Hallenbeck, a one-time secret service man who has fallen from grace and become a small-time private eye, gets assigned to protect the stripper girlfriend of a football player banned from the league for gambling. When, despite his efforts, the stripper is murdered, Hallenbeck and the football player team up to figure out who's behind the killing.
Film Notes
Theatrical release: December 31, 1991.
Filmed on location in Los Angeles, California.
Screenwriter Shane Black, who wrote the scripts for the popular LETHAL WEAPON series, was reportedly paid $1.75 million for this screenplay as the result of a bidding war between several studios.
Vern Lundquist, Dick Butkus and Lynne Swan appear as themselves.
Industry Reviews
"...A broadside of gags, blows and bullets..."
Sight and Sound - p.49 - Philip Strick
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