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.
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.
Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Kevin Smith had been a fan of Bruce Willis for years prior to working with him. Willis, after acting with Smith on
Live Free or Die Hard, told him that he was interested in being one of his films. Despite all this, it was Warner Bros. who suggested casting Willis as Jimmy Monroe.
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Goofs
Continuity:
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 is "fuck you". See more »
"Loco En El Coco"
Written by Louis M. Freeze, Lawrence Muggerud and Senen Reyes Performed by Cypress Hill Courtesy of Columbia Records By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
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