Police Officer Alex Kearney works in a rich, plush suburb of Philadelphia. When he stops an important businessman and his story of the incident is not believed, he is sent to work Downtown,...
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Anthony Edwards | ... | Alex Kearney | |
| Forest Whitaker | ... | Dennis Curren | |
| Penelope Ann Miller | ... | Lori Mitchell | |
| Joe Pantoliano | ... | White | |
| David Clennon | ... | Jerome Sweet | |
| Art Evans | ... | Henry Coleman | |
| Rick Aiello | ... | Mickey Witlin | |
| Roger Aaron Brown | ... | Lt. Sam Parral | |
| Ron Canada | ... | Lowell Harris | |
| Wanda De Jesus | ... | Luisa Diaz | |
| Francis X. McCarthy | ... | Inspector Ben Glass (as Frank McCarthy) | |
| Kimberly Scott | ... | Christine Curren | |
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Ryan McWhorter | ... | Ephraim Cain |
| Danuel Pipoly | ... | Skip Markowitz | |
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Maurice Hill | ... | Man with Dog |
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Police Officer Alex Kearney works in a rich, plush suburb of Philadelphia. When he stops an important businessman and his story of the incident is not believed, he is sent to work Downtown, the most dangerous, crime-filled precinct in the city. Everyone there is sure that this 'by the book', pampered, suburban cop is going to get himself, and whoever is assigned as his partner, killed. Detective Dennis Curren, draws the unfortunate 'babysitting' assignment. But when Alex's best friend is killed investigating a stolen car, Alex throws the book out the window tracking down the killer. Written by Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
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12 January 1990 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$10,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$2,346,150Company Credits
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The First Film Of The 1990s. See more »Goofs
When White pulls abreast of Alex and Dennis to shoot, he rolls down the window and you hear the sound of a pump shotgun being cycled. White is holding an over/under shotgun which does not make any such sound. See more »Quotes
Henry Coleman: A fuck-up. Another goddamn, four-star, class-A fuck-up! Every backward candy-ass shit-for-brains fuck-up in the city, I get 'em. Not Wynnefield, not South Philly, not Germantown, me!See more »
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I'm just watching this movie and I think it's great. One question, Kearney greets the bus driver on his commute "Downtown" as "Tim." I only caught a brief glimpse, but I think the driver is played by Tim Roth. Can anyone confirm?
Anthony Edward's performance, in my opinion, is very much like Judge Reinhold in Beverley Hills Cop. In fact I think the whole movie has a Beverley Hills Cop feel to it, albeit without the knockout performance of Eddie Murphy. Forest Whitaker is good in this movie, as usual a very skilled performance,and I wish his character was given a little more emphasis and depth.
All in all a great movie and a credit to the Buddy Cop genre.