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| Burt Reynolds | ... | Tony Church | |
| Liza Minnelli | ... | Della Roberts | |
| James Remar | ... | Dancer | |
| Richard Masur | ... | Roger | |
| Dionne Warwick | ... | Beth | |
| Bernie Casey | ... | Lemar | |
| Robby Benson | ... | Pitts | |
| John Stanton | ... | Alexander | |
| John P. Ryan | ... | Wieser | |
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Larry Dolgin | ... | Capt. James |
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Roslyn Alexander | ... | Miss Barley |
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Cyrus Elias | ... | Victor |
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JoBe Cerny | ... | Hotel Clerk No. 1 |
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Joe Greco | ... | Hotel Clerk No. 2 |
| Ned Schmidtke | ... | Lindy | |
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When call-girl Della gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber that busted in on the drug agents and the drug dealers. She gets rescued by vice cop Church who is accused of staging the aborted bust. Ex-ballplayer turned drug dealer Roger is in tight with corrupt vice cops and their superiors And the fireworks start popping. Written by Richard Jones <rjo339@swbell.net>
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15 January 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$295,000, 17 January 1988, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
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In 1981, Burt Reynolds did a movie called SHARKEY'S MACHINE. He played a cop who is demoted to the vice squad after a shootout with a drug dealer results in several deaths. In RENT-A-COP, he plays a cop who is reduced to working as a security guard when a masked killer botches a drug bust and kills his fellow police officers. In the former movie, Burt watches a hooker, played by Rachel Ward, whom he hopes will help him nab a crimelord. In the latter movie, a hooker, played by Liza Minnelli, joins forces with Burt to track down the killer. Both of these movies co-starred Bernie Casey. The plots of both movies seem familiar, and Liza is not really believable as a hooker, but RENT-A-COP is just one of those Eighties movies that is far more fun to watch on TV rather than the big screen.