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Top Dog (1995) -- Maverick cop Jake Wilder (Norris) is convinced his career has gone to the dogs when he meets his new partner- a mischievous, high-I.Q. canine named Reno.

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Director:

Aaron Norris

Writers (WGA):

Aaron Norris (story) and
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Release Date:

28 April 1995 (USA) more

Tagline:

One's tough ... One's smart... Together they unleash explosive action! more

Plot:

With his cop companion shot and killed by terrorists, Reno The Dog pairs up with tough cop Jake in thwarting the criminal organization. | add synopsis

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Cast

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Chuck Norris ... Jake Wilder
Michele Lamar Richards ... Savannah Boyette

Erik von Detten ... Matthew Swanson
Carmine Caridi ... Lou Swanson

Clyde Kusatsu ... Capt. Callahan
Kai Wulff ... Otto Dietrich
Peter Savard Moore ... Karl Koller

Timothy Bottoms ... Nelson Houseman
Francesco Quinn ... Mark Curtains
Herta Ware ... Jake's mother

John Kerry ... Cmdr. West
Hank Baumert ... Border Patrol Officer

Linda Castro ... Paramedic
John Sistrunk ... Driver at border
Bob Bastanchury ... Passenger
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Additional Details

Runtime:

86 min | USA:93 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

San Diego, California, USA


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

This encountered some flak as it was released just 9 days after the Oklahoma bombing. The film's plot actually features a gang of militant right-wingers who intend to detonate a similar device in a public place. Not surprisingly, the film took only $300 on its opening night in Oklahoma and the distributors - Live Entertainment - were forced to release a statement disassociating its film from the real-life incident. more

Goofs:

Factual errors: The C4 in the trunk of the car blew up when shot. In reality, shooting the C4 would have had no effect. more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Superbad (2007) more


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A nail in Chuck's coffin, 16 June 2004
Author: (caspian1978@hotmail.com) from Attleboro, MA

Both movies, Turner and Hooch and K-9 were good films. Comedies with both a good story and good actors in the cast. Top Dog is a recycled version of something trying to market itself to be another K-9 or Turner and Hooch king of movie. Top Dog lacked a strong actor such as Tom Hanks or great comedy like in K-9. Chuck Norris, who has done a number of excellent action films and went off to do a successful television series (Walker: Texas Ranger), could not hold this film together. For a child's movie, maybe, this film could be considered something decent, but it failed to find an audience older than 13. It is obvious that the studios wanted a summer comedy with some karate style action. What they produced was a mistake.

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