A young doctor on his way across the country to a job interview crashes his car in a small town and is sentenced to work for several days at the town hospital.
Director:
Michael Caton-Jones
Stars:
Michael J. Fox,
Julie Warner,
Barnard Hughes
A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life.
Director:
Herbert Ross
Stars:
Michael J. Fox,
Helen Slater,
Richard Jordan
Doug's a concierge at a luxury hotel on Manhattan. He saves all his tips towards his plan for a hotel. A potential investor seduces the girl, Doug loves, with false promises of leaving his wife. Doug's dilemma: hotel project or girl?
Director:
Barry Sonnenfeld
Stars:
Michael J. Fox,
Gabrielle Anwar,
Anthony Higgins
Rich, old uncle Joe is surrounded by relatives waiting/hoping for him to die while trying to look good and backstabbing the competition. What should he do?
Two immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading.
Director:
John Badham
Stars:
Richard Dreyfuss,
Emilio Estevez,
Rosie O'Donnell
After a tragic car accident kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead.
Director:
Peter Jackson
Stars:
Michael J. Fox,
Trini Alvarado,
Peter Dobson
Nick Lang is a famous Hollywood actor, well known for his action movies. For his next movie, he needs the proper motivation and inspiration for his role. Thus he teams up with the reluctant New York policeman Lt. John Moss. Not only does he have to put up with Nick, who is laborious and out of touch with realities, but he also has to catch a coldblooded murderer.Written by
Mattias Pettersson <seaman@sbbs.se>
The film was originally slated to shoot for sixteen weeks, but it was reduced to thirteen because producer and second unit director Rob Cohen was shooting at the same time as John Badham in different locations, to save more time and money. See more »
Goofs
As Susan is falling from the Smoking Gunn II billboard onto Nick Lang's cigar a harness rope is briefly visible. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Operator:
9-1-1 Emergency.
Party Crasher:
Hello there! It's me - again! Well, what can I say? I'm about to crash another party.
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"The Hard Way" is a good old fashioned popcorn flick which gets off to a fast start and keeps moving until the credits roll. Fox plays an Indiana Jones type adventure movie star who goes to NYC to hang with a badass cop (Woods) to learn what being a cop is like and becomes embroiled in a serial killer caper. The well crafted, unpredictable screenplay is chock full of action, comedy, stunts, suspense, light drama, etc. with nary a dull moment to be found. Good not-to-be-taken-seriously Hollywood fun stuff worth a second look for those who saw it a decade ago.
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"The Hard Way" is a good old fashioned popcorn flick which gets off to a fast start and keeps moving until the credits roll. Fox plays an Indiana Jones type adventure movie star who goes to NYC to hang with a badass cop (Woods) to learn what being a cop is like and becomes embroiled in a serial killer caper. The well crafted, unpredictable screenplay is chock full of action, comedy, stunts, suspense, light drama, etc. with nary a dull moment to be found. Good not-to-be-taken-seriously Hollywood fun stuff worth a second look for those who saw it a decade ago.