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10 June 1988 (USA) moreTagline:
THE PRESIDIO ARMY BASE, SAN FRANCISCO. When a landmark of historic tradition becomes the scene of a shocking murder, a military commander and a street-tough cop are forced into action... against the killer, the mysterious past, and each other. morePlot:
Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Meg and Harmon just cut to the chase moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sean Connery | ... | Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell | |
| Mark Harmon | ... | Jay Austin | |
| Meg Ryan | ... | Donna Caldwell | |
| Jack Warden | ... | Sgt. Maj. Ross Maclure | |
| Mark Blum | ... | Arthur Peale | |
| Dana Gladstone | ... | Col. Paul Lawrence | |
| Jenette Goldstein | ... | Patti Jean Lynch | |
| Marvin J. McIntyre | ... | MP Zeke | |
| Don Calfa | ... | Howard Buckely | |
| John DiSanti | ... | Det. Marvin Powell | |
| Robert Lesser | ... | Sgt. Mueller | |
| James Hooks Reynolds | ... | George Spota | |
| Curtis W. Sims | ... | Sgt. Garfield | |
| Rick Zumwalt | ... | Bully in Bar | |
| Rosalyn Marshall | ... | Lawrence's Secretary |
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2.20 : 1 moreCertification:
Iceland:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | Canada:14+ (Ontario - 2006) | South Korea:15 | Netherlands:16 | Australia:M | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16Fun Stuff
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Originally meant to star Sir Sean Connery and Don Johnson, but Johnson had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with "Miami Vice" (1984). Mark Harmon was brought in as a last-minute replacement. moreGoofs:
Errors in geography: When Austin is given the address of Colonel Lawerence in Chinatown he is told its in Chinatown at 1412 Washington which is in the Nob Hill District of San Francisco. moreSoundtrack:
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Detective Jay Austin (Mark Harmon) was sure that somebody wanted something badly from the storeroom that night So he broke in and killed his friend, an MP, Patti Jean Lynch (Jeanette Goldstein) during her routine patrol
Austin used to be an MP under Lt. Colonel Caldwell's (Sean Connery) command He thought he could use the Colonel's help avoiding other channels His instinct tells him that the bullet belongs to someone on the base What we get here is an investigation involving both the Army and the San Francisco Police Department
Now, while Caldwell considers Austin a man who has no respect for women and he'll use his daughter (whom he loves too much) to get at him his friend, Sgt. Maj. Ross Maclure (Jack Warden) knows that Donna is not a little girl anymore, and that her father doesn't want her to grow up
As a woman in love, Donna (Meg Ryan) knows that her father and Austin don't like each other So she decides to find out about Austin, and about that incident in the Presidio, where the female MP that was shot to death was with Austin when he busted Colonel Paul Lawrence (Dana Gladstone)
The investigation takes a turn when Caldwell knew that Arthur Peale (Mark Blum)a former province adviser to the CIA in Vietnamowns the Black Mountain Water Company Slowly, he begins to perceive that there's a piece missing, something worth killing for
The film carries two car chases in the streets of San Francisco, a good fight in a bar, and a climactic shoot-out in a water bottling plant