Genre: Action, Thriller, Comedy, Police, Buddies, Thieves, Prison, Racy, Revenge, Investigation, Escape, Psychos, Suspense, Detectives, Gay/Lesbian, Prostitution, Hostage, Murder, Kidnapping, Role-switching
Tagline: The boys are back in town. Nick Nolte is a cop. Eddie Murphy is a convict. They couldn't have liked each other less. They couldn't have needed each other more. And the last place they ever expected to be is on the same side. Even for... 48 HRS
Plot: Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy make one of the most unusual and entertaining teams even in Walter Hill's roller-coaster thriller, 48 HRS. Notle is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy, who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. This unlikely partnership trades laughs as often as punches as both pursue their seperate goals: Notle wants the villians; Murphy wants his money and some much-needed female companionship. Watch for Murphy's hilarious scene in a redneck country-western bar - you'll want to see it again and again.Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) is a tough, super-jaded cop who springs a hard luck robber, Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy), from jail for two days to help nab his former partners. The two men form a kind of friendship (based on mutual hatred) as they chase a trio of remorseless villains through the streets of San Francisco and Cates finds that Hammond's streetwise method of finding the criminals is possibly even more effective than his own by-the-book police procedures. Rounded characters and crackling comedy balance out this this box-office hit. A sequel, ANOTHER 48 HOURS, was produced in 1990.
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Walter Hill
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 | Walter Hill
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 | Brion James
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 | Jonathan Banks
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