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Release Date:
8 March 1991 (USA)
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Tagline:
There's only one way these two are going to get along... more
Plot:
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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1 nomination
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Hot Topic Learns Its Lessons The Hard Way...Again
(From TwilightersAnonymous. 12 November 2008, 7:07 PM, PST)
(From TwilightersAnonymous. 12 November 2008, 7:07 PM, PST)
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Funny action flick
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:12 |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
South Korea:15 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-14 |
France:U |
Germany:16 (w) |
Italy:T |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Argentina:13 |
Ireland:15 |
Netherlands:16 |
Germany:BPjM Restricted
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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.
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Goofs:
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!"
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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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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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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Showbiz Today: (1991-05-01)" (1991)
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Soundtrack:
This neighborhood
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| favorite line | Brynnda |
| Oh, look at the love boat. | kenneth6433 |
| Stupid Susan | elvis_depp |
| Lots of tongu-in-cheek product placement.... | dougzinboston-1 |
| Frogdog | markladds |
| Why rated R? | dhw377-1 |
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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.