Other Titles • Hollywood Homicide (2003) • Two Cops • Untitled Harrison Ford Starrer
Synopses for Hollywood Homicide (2003)
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In Hollywood, when you’re number one with a bullet, they call in the cops.
Revolution Studios presents Hollywood Homicide, a fast paced action comedy directed by Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, White Men Can’t Jump), starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett.
Harrison Ford portrays veteran detective Joe Gavilan, a weary but tenacious police veteran at the top of his game professionally, though his personal life is rapidly unraveling. His partner, K.C. Calden (Josh Hartnett), seems to be more interested in his side jobs as a yoga teacher and aspiring actor than in the high-profile gangland-style murder they are currently investigating.
Welcome to the land of blue skies, palm trees and dead bodies.
Revolution Studios Presents A Pitt/Shelton Production Hollywood Homicide starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett, a Columbia Pictures release. The film also stars Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Lolita Davidovich, Keith David, Master P and Lou Diamond Phillips with Dwight Yoakam and Martin Landau.
Hollywood Homicide is directed by Ron Shelton and written by Robert Souza & Ron Shelton. Lou Pitt and Shelton are the producers. Joe Roth and David Lester serve as executive producers. Barry Peterson is the director of photography. Jim Bissell is the production designer. The film is edited by Paul Seydor, A.C.E. Bernie Pollack is the costume designer. The music is by Alex Wurman. The music supervision is by Dawn Solér and Kathy Nelson.
Hollywood Homicide is rated PG-13 for Violence, Sexual Situations and Language
(57 votes)
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Harrison Ford portrays veteran detective Joe Gavilan {Harrison Ford), a weary but tenacious police veteran at the top of his game professionally, though his personal life is rapidly unraveling. His partner, K.C. Calden (Josh Hartnett), seems to be more interested in his side jobs as a yoga teacher and aspiring actor than in the high-profile gangland-style murder they are currently investigating.
Welcome to the land of blue skies, palm trees and dead bodies.
(53 votes)
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Harrison Ford lends his solid, perpetually disgruntled presence to Hollywood Homicide, an action comedy in which he's paired with the squinty eyes and peaches-and-cream complexion of Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down, O). Radical French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard would appreciate this complete deconstruction of the buddy-cop flick genre; basic cinematic elements (mismatched partners, a hard-ass superior riding them, arguments about who's going to drive, arguments about intuition vs. diligent detective work, the bad cop who killed Hartnett's father, etc.) have been scrambled and slapped together with no concern for coherence, making clear their innately artificial nature. Sex scenes and car chases come out of nowhere and disappear without consequence, providing arbitrary visual stimulus. During shootouts, it's impossible to tell who got killed or why, underscoring a basic doubt about the purpose of making movies like Hollywood Homicide. It's rare for a mainstream movie to be so daringly (if perhaps accidentally) avant-garde. --Bret Fetzer
(51 votes)
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When not solving murders in Tinseltown, Detective Joe Gavilan and his rookie partner Kasey Calden both moonlight in other fields: Gavilan sells real estate (poorly), and Calden aspires to become an actor (Brando, namely). Assigned to the vicious in-club slaying of a promising young rap act, the two detective delve into the recording industry where they hope to find answers - ideally ones that also come with property buyers or auditions.
(37 votes)
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