48 Hrs. details
Movie Details:
- Director: Walter Hill
- Produced By: Paramount, Lawrence Gordon Productions
- Year: 1982
- Run Time: 96 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Set in: San Francisco, CA
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Action
- Filmed In: Color
- Alternate Titles: 48 Hours
- Key Cast: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly, Sonny Landham, Brion James, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Music Score (Los Angeles Film Critics Association 1982), New Star of the Year - Male (Hollywood Foreign Press Association 1982), Full Awards
A variation on the "buddy-cop" hybridized genre, 48 HRS. greatly bolstered the career of Nick Nolte and made comedian Eddie Murphy a bonafide box-office sensation. When a pair of reckless cop-killers break out of prison, grizzled detective Jack Cates (Nolte) is left no alternative but to spring fast-talking hustler Reggie Hammond (Murphy) from the penitentiary in order to find the criminals. The catch: the pair only have 48 hours to complete their assignment before Hammond must return to prison. Naturally, the two despise each other and even engage in fisticuffs, but eventually the danger facing them proves a strong enough common bond for them to play on the same team, and even achieve a little mutual admiration. by Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- convict
- police
- cop-killer
- escape
- friendship
- robbery
- investigator
- law-enforcement
- psychopath
- odd-couple
- role-switching
Themes:
- Criminal's Revenge
- Race Against Time
- Rogue Cops
