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48 Hrs. (1982)

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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 26, 1999
• R2: 4 Sep 2000

Running Time
1 hour, 36 minutes

Country USA

Studio Lawrence Gordon Productions, Paramount

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Other Titles
• 48 Hrs.
• 48 Hours
• Nur 48 Stunden (1983)



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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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 Directed by
Walter Hill
Last Man Standing, Red Heat, Another 48 Hrs.
 Written by
Roger Spottiswoode
Another 48 Hrs., Tomorrow Never Dies, The 6th Day
Walter Hill
The Getaway, The Getaway, The Mackintosh Man
 Cast
Nick Nolte
The Thin Red Line, Hotel Rwanda, Hulk
Eddie Murphy
Shrek, Shrek 2, Beverly Hills Cop
Annette O'Toole
It, Superman III, Cat People
David Patrick Kelly
The Crow, K-PAX, The Longest Yard
Brion James
Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, The Player
Jonathan Banks
Airplane!, Beverly Hills Cop, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
Denise Crosby
Pet Sematary, Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things..., Trekkies
[more]
 Music By
James Horner
Braveheart, Titanic, Aliens



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