48 HRS.

Product description Nolte stars as a cop who teams up with a convicted robber to catch two vicious murderers. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: R Release Date: 28-MAR-2006 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com Before the action-oriented "buddy movie" formula settled into place in the 1980s and 1990s with the Lethal Weapon films, Walter Hill's 48 HRS. presented a much more irreverent and politically incorrect version of the genre. Eddie Murphy made an auspicious film debut alongside veteran Nick Nolte's consummate performance as a worn cop. Murphy plays a convict on a two-day furlough from prison to help capture his former partner (James Remar). The intense animosity between his character and Nolte's impatient detective is rude and violent--albeit in a comic way--and the film's racist and sexist banter is so ubiquitous that some viewers might be turned off. (This early, raw Murphy is not the Murphy of The Nutty Professor.) Then again, sometimes deliberate overkill is funny in itself, which is certainly closer to Hill's intention. There are a couple of scenes for the ages in this film, especially Murphy's single-handed shutdown of the action in a redneck bar. --Tom Keogh
ASIN: 6305252572
VSKU: LFV.6305252572.N
Condition: New
Author/Artist:Nick Nolte|Eddie Murphy|Annette O'Toole|Frank McRae|James Remar|David Patrick Kelly|Sonny Landham|Brion James|Kerry Sherman|Jonathan Banks|James Keane|Tara King|Walter Hill|Larry Gross|Roger Spottiswoode|Steven E. de Souza
Binding: Dvd
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