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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Lem Dobbs (story) and
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Release Date:
8 March 1991 (USA) more
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There's only one way these two are going to get along... more
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An action film star researching a role is allowed to tag along with a hardboiled New York cop, who finds him superficial and irritating. full summary | add synopsis
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Funny action flick more (41 total)

Cast

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Michael J. Fox ... Nick Lang / Ray Casanov

James Woods ... Detective Lt. John Moss, NYPD

Stephen Lang ... Party Crasher

Annabella Sciorra ... Susan
John Capodice ... Detective Grainy, NYPD

Luis Guzmán ... Detective Benny Pooley, NYPD (as Luis Guzman)

LL Cool J ... Detective Billy, NYPD

Mary Mara ... Detective China, NYPD

Delroy Lindo ... Captain Brix, NYPD

Conrad Roberts ... Witherspoon, Gun Dealer

Penny Marshall ... Angie, Nick's Agent

Christina Ricci ... Bonnie

George Cheung ... Drug Dealer
Frank Geraci ... Newsman
Sophie Maletsky ... Pizza Waitress
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111 min
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One of James Woods' perks was to have his own personal hairdresser, at a cost to the studio of $6000 a week. The average on-set hairdresser usually costs about a third of that. more
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Susan is hanging off the large hat of "Smoking Gunn II"'s billboard, she says, "John!" but her mouth says, "Hey!" more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Operator: 9-1-1 Emergency.
Party Crasher: Hello there! It's me - again! Well, what can I say? I'm about to crash another party.
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Referenced in "Showbiz Today: (1991-05-01)" (1991) more
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This neighborhood more

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8 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Funny action flick, 13 September 1999

The Hard Way is a great action comedy, but totally underrated. In this film Michael J. Fox plays an action actor Nick Lang, who wants in his next film play the New York cop John Moss, played by James Woods.So Nick spends some time with Moss, like lives in the same apartment with him.Moss doesn't like this at all, he's not such a big fan of Lang.And then there is also a bad guy, played by Stephen Lang.So there are two problems that Moss has to get rid of.And John has a girlfriend Susan, who is played by Annabella Sciorra.And John's having some problems with her too.But everything turns out fine with Moss, Lang and Susan, but not so fine with the crook. This was a great film with great actors.Michael J. Fox was great as usual and it was nice to see James Woods in a comedy.It would be nice to see a sequel for this, but the movie wasn't so successful as it should have been, so maybe not then.

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