Cop Out (2010)

A comedy about a veteran NYPD cop whose rare baseball card is stolen. Since it's his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, he recruits his partner to track down the thief, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster.

Director:

Kevin Smith

Writers:

Robb Cullen, Mark Cullen

Stars:

Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Juan Carlos Hernández

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Bruce Willis	...	Jimmy Monroe
Tracy Morgan	...	Paul Hodges
Juan Carlos Hernández	...	Raul
Cory Fernandez	...	Juan
Jason Hurt	...	Youth 1
Jeff Lima	...	Youth 2
Sean Cullen	...	Captain Romans
Kevin Pollak	...	Hunsaker
Adam Brody	...	Barry Mangold
Guillermo Díaz	...	Poh Boy
Alberto Bonilla	...	Julio
Robinson Aponte	...	Banger 1
Jeremy Dash	...	Banger 2
Mando Alvarado	...	Mexican Man 1
Michelle Trachtenberg	...	Ava

Storyline

After a clumsy operation trying to capture a drug dealer, the N.Y.P.D Detectives Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges are suspended for one month by their Captain Romans. Jimmy decides to sell his rare baseball card to pay for his daughter's expensive wedding while his jealous partner believes that his wife is cheating on him with their next-door neighbor. When Jimmy sells his card to a memorabilia store, the place is burgled by two small-time thieves and the detective loses his card. They track down the thieves.

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Plot Keywords:

wedding | partner | baseball card | detective | gangster | 

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Taglines:

Rock out with your Glock out

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Crime

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for pervasive language including sexual references, violence and brief sexuality

Details

Official Sites:

Warner Bros. [fr] Warner Bros. [jp]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 February 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Couple of Cops

Filming Locations:

Colonial Rd & 81st St, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$37,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£64,935 (UK) (21 May 2010)

Gross:

£64,935 (UK) (21 May 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros, Marc Platt Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

107 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The title is a pun, obliquely referring to being changed from "A Couple of Dicks". That title was itself a pun, with "dick" being 1940s slang for "detective," and was actually spoken by someone in the precinct after the interrogation scene.

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Goofs

In the scene after they arrest Dave ('Sean William Scott'), and are driving in the car, Paul ('Tracy Morgan') can be seen talking on a Blackberry Pearl. In the first part the phone can be seen held correctly. When the camera switches to a view from over his shoulder. The phone is being held upside down.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Paul Hodges: You know what today represents? Nine Jim. Nine years me and you been together. *Nine* we been main shit stains. I know some dogs that don't even live to be nine. You're lucky if you get seven years out of a Great Dane. But me and you been puttin' it together for nine...
[whips out a card]
Paul Hodges: Happy anniversary Jim.
Jimmy Monroe: I don't celebrate anniversaries.
Paul Hodges: Jim, open it up. I wanna see the expression on your face.
Jimmy Monroe: You wanna see the expression on my face? The expression you're gonna see on my face...

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Connections

References The Untouchables (1987)

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Soundtracks

"Knight Rider"
Written by Stu Phillips and Glen Larson
Performed by Stu Phillips
Courtesy of Universal Studios

User Reviews

Is this a joke?

This is supposed to be a comedy, allegedly. I only know that because it's advertised as a comedy, though - you certainly wouldn't know because of any funny moments in the film. It's a buddy cop movie, where Bruce Willis looks as though he's overdosed on Valium and Tracy Morgan makes up for that by doing what I can only describe as a minstrel show routine.

I don't want to get on my high horse about what's supposed to be a light-hearted action cop movie, but then again I didn't want to get angry after a light-hearted action cop movie, either. Angry about Morgan's performance, a gibbering, cavorting, screeching act that wouldn't have been out of place in the days of Stepin Fetchit. Angry about the fact that no one involved seemed to give a toss - in fact they might as well have spent the whole movie just standing there, holding up two middle fingers at the audience.

But I'm angry most of all at Kevin Smith, the director of this piece of utter garbage. He used to be talented. He used to make great movies like Clerks, Dogma, even Mallrats. Yeah, that's right, I'm the guy who liked Mallrats. These days he churns out lazy rubbish and then goes on Twitter and whines at anyone who dares to criticise it. He's thrown his talent away, and he's so wrapped up in the bubble of his own self-importance that he doesn't seem to realise it. By making a film like this, and clearly not caring at all about how it turned out, he's shown his complete contempt for movie-goers, fans and the smoking wreckage of his own career. Well done, Kevin. Well done.