Showtime (2002)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Tom Dey

Writers (WGA):

Jorge Saralegui (story)
Keith Sharon (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

15 March 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

Lights. Camera. Aggravation.

Plot:

A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show.

Plot Keywords:

Police | Lapd | Drugs | Buddy Cop | Hidden Camera

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Robert De Niro	...	Det. Mitch Preston
Rachael Harris	...	Teacher (as Rachel Harris)
Eddie Murphy	...	Officer Trey Sellars
Zaid Farid	...	Police Captain Ben
Alex Borstein	...	Casting Director
Holly Mandel	...	Producer
Marshall Manesh	...	Convenience Store Owner
Nestor Serrano	...	Ray
T.J. Cross	...	ReRun (as TJ Cross)
Mos Def	...	Lazy Boy
James Roday	...	'Showtime' Cameraman
Joel Hurt Jones	...	Reporter #1
Chris Harrison	...	Reporter #2
Perri Peltz	...	Reporter #3
Amy Powell	...	Reporter #4

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for action violence, language and some drug content.

Runtime:

95 min | Finland:96 min | Spain:96 min

Country:

USA | Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Certification:

Finland:K-11 | Iceland:12 | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Canada:PG | Czech Republic:12 | France:U | Germany:12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Philippines:PG-13 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Material

Trivia:

The head shot photo of Eddie Murphy in the tuxedo is a still from The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002).

Goofs:

Continuity: During the armored car chase, the police car that Mitch is driving has the driver's side portion of the windshield totally gone in some shots and totally intact in others.

Quotes:

Detective Mitch Preston: I have no interest in you, your stupid questions, or your silly show

Movie Connections:

Featured in "HBO First Look: The Making of 'Showtime' (#9.4)" (2002)

Soundtrack:

So What

Entertains, But Not Too Memorable

This was a pretty good modern-day comedy with straight man Robert De Niro doing a good job with comedy and Eddie Murphy just playing his normal whacked-out character. You get a good combination of humor and action in here. It had the normal cliché the ending, the kind you can see coming a mile away, but it's okay; it didn't hurt the film.

William Shatner was very entertaining in a supporting role and I think that was De Niro's real-life daughter playing Rene Russo's TV sidekick in the movie.

A decent cop-buddy film that isn't memorable an entertaining way to kill an hour-and-a-half.