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4 October 1991 (USA)
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He's a cop accused of murder. And the only man who knows he's innocent is the killer who framed him. more
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An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop. full summary | add synopsis
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Denzel Washington And Will Smith Have Got Jokes
(From MTV Movies Blog. 10 June 2009, 10:00 AM, PDT)
Adrien Brody Becomes 'The Courier'
(From Cinematical. 28 October 2008, 5:15 PM, PDT)
(From MTV Movies Blog. 10 June 2009, 10:00 AM, PDT)
Adrien Brody Becomes 'The Courier'
(From Cinematical. 28 October 2008, 5:15 PM, PDT)
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Denzel Washington in Die Hard Mode? John Lithgow as a crackling maniac? You bet. And the results fun.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Denzel Washington | ... | Nick Styles |
 | John Lithgow | ... | Blake |
 | Ice-T | ... | Odessa (as Ice T) |
 | Kevin Pollak | ... | Larry |
 | Lindsay Wagner | ... | Brimleigh |
 | Mary Ellen Trainor | ... | Gail Wallens |
| Josh Evans | ... | Kim |
| Victoria Dillard | ... | Alice |
| John Amos | ... | Reverend Styles |
 | John Cothran Jr. | ... | Farris |
| Linda Dona | ... | Wanda (as Linda Doná) |
 | Matt Landers | ... | Chief Floyd |
| Lydell M. Cheshier | ... | R.C. |
 | Starletta DuPois | ... | Mrs. Styles |
 | Sherman Howard | ... | Kiley |
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109 min
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Germany:16 (cut) |
Germany:18 (cut) |
Argentina:16 |
Iceland:16 |
Singapore:M18 |
Australia:R |
South Korea:18 |
Australia:M (DVD rating) |
Philippines:R-18 |
Canada:18A |
Finland:K-18 |
France:-16 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 (cut) |
USA:R |
Netherlands:16 |
Germany:BPjM Restricted
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'John Lithgow' almost never blinks during this film. He wore a contact lens to give the impression that his Earl T. Blake character had a glass eye.
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Revealing mistakes: When Styles is getting dressed in the locker room and stands up when the woman comes in the room you can clearly see that Washington is wearing a "modesty pouch".
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Nick Styles:
If that's how you treat your friends, Blake, I'm glad we're enemies.
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Tuff Enuff
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Remember when John Lithgow used to be menacing? Remember when he was a demented psycho in Blow Out? or the magnificent transvestite in The World According to Garp? What about when he was a demented paranoid in The Twilight Zone - The Movie? And that religious tormented Reverend in Footloose? Even De Palma's Raising Cain was good in Lithgow's gallery of freaks. Yes, John Lithgow used to be dangerous as an actor. And one of those great performances was given in this little seen thriller directed by Russell "Highlander" Mulcahy. Denzel Washington, in a full, maniacal "Die Hard" mode, is Nick Styles, a maverick cop who is framed fro murder after Blake (Lithgow, in electric psycho mode) escapes form prison seeking revenge on Styles, the man that put him on cold seven years ago. The pace is really fast, the situations are extreme and the movie even manages to include some over the top, twisted violence. Sure, it has the very same conventionalisms and clichés of every other action movie (Styles partner dies, et al), but still, Ricochet goes over the average thanks to bravura performances by the two leads and some damn fine action sequences and camerawork.
But now, Russell Mulcahy has stepped into oblivion and John Lithgow has become somber family fodder in mind numbing sitcoms about aliens and rock.