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Title: Rent-a-Cop (1987)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| 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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looking at oneself in a mirror | prostitute | call girl | hotel | street shootout |Taglines:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
15 January 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$295,000, 17 January 1988Gross USA:
$295,000Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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This movie is set in Chicago, but was mostly shot in Italy. See more »Connections
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Why did some one hire Liza Minnelli? Did they not think she she would show up? Was it a prank phone call that backfired horribly? These are the key questions that lie at the heart of Rent-A-Cop. Surely Ms. Minnelli wasn't hired for her looks or talent, so why did she end up on film? Her acting reminds one of the dangers of coke addiction. Hey and can you believe it, Burt Reynolds shows up in this movie too, I think he might even play the lead role as Detective Bandit, the Trans Am is in the shop. A human is given a writing credit for this movie which must be a typo, also Bobby Benson appears as the voice of the Beast for Disney's Beauty And The Beast, although he has to dress like a human in Rent-A-Cop, I guess Disney wouldn't let Benson wear the costume, something about copyright law.