A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Bruce Willis | ... | Hudson Hawk | |
| Danny Aiello | ... | Tommy Five-Tone | |
| Andie MacDowell | ... | Anna Baragli | |
| James Coburn | ... | George Kaplan | |
| Richard E. Grant | ... | Darwin Mayflower | |
| Sandra Bernhard | ... | Minerva Mayflower | |
| Donald Burton | ... | Alfred | |
| Don Harvey | ... | Snickers | |
| David Caruso | ... | Kit Kat | |
| Andrew Bryniarski | ... | Butterfinger | |
| Lorraine Toussaint | ... | Almond Joy | |
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Burtt Harris | ... | Gates |
| Frank Stallone | ... | Cesar Mario | |
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Carmine Zozzora | ... | Antony Mario (as Carmine Zozorra) |
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Stefano Molinari | ... | Leonardo da Vinci (as Stephano Molinari) |
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Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy. Written by Harald Mayr <marvin@bike.augusta.de>
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time bomb | neo screwball comedy | worst picture razzie winner | prison | burglar |Taglines:
Shy. Sensitive. Law-abiding. Polite. Repsectful. - I don't think so. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
24 May 1991 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Adventures of Hudson Hawk See more »Edit
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Budget:
$65,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$17,218,080Company Credits
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Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Narrator: Long ago, the Duke of Milan commissioned a little known artist to erect a Mammoth statue of a horse. The time was 1481... The artist was Leonardo da Vinci... The guy on the donkey's just a guy on a donkey.
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The nick-name of Tommy Messina (Danny Aiello) was "Five-Tone", while the nicknames of Eddie Hawkins (Bruce Willis) were "The Hawk" and "Hudson Hawk", which are also the nicknames for the fierce bracing winds that blew off Lake Michigan and the Hudson River in New York. See more »Goofs
Any 500-year-old book would fall apart when treated as cavalierly as Hawk treats Da Vinci's notebook. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: Long ago, the Duke of Milan commissioned a little known artist to erect a Mammoth statue of a horse. The time was 1481... The artist was Leonardo da Vinci... The guy on the donkey's just a guy on a donkey.
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Just sprung from prison Hudson Hawk finds himself being chased by an insane and insanely rich couple, the CIA and the Vatican in a mad chase to get bits of a gold making machine made by Da Vinci. Along the way stupid jokes are told, the plot is ignored or twisted in the name of a joke and the entire cast winks at the audience repeatedly as if to say that even they can't believe the silly things they are doing in the name of fun.
When this movie opened it was crucified by critics across the country as an unfunny vanity project. It sunk the promising career of the director and made people take a second look at Bruce Willis. very few people braved the reviews and saw this in theaters. Me? I'm one of the six people in America that went to see this on opening night. I've loved this movie from the first and my opinion has grown with each viewing. I remember arguing with people for weeks afterward that they should see this movie because it was damn funny. No one listened to me, and it wasn't until cable and home video that people discovered this wrongly dismissed gem. This is more proof that sometimes critics don't get it.
Then again all humor is subjective and what one person finds funny is not what other people find funny. I love this knowingly dumb, puny, go for the obvious, nothing is sacred or too stupid to try collection of jokes and gags. Other people are offended or utterly bored by its often infantile antics. I find it charming and harmless, other people find it cruel (Bunny Ball Ball!). I can't say which camp you'll fall into, but I think that you should ignore the critics and just see this movie. Its mindless fun of the highest order.