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October 4 & 5, 2003 |
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Rated PG-13 |
Hollywood Homicide (2003)   October 4, 2003 at 7:00 and 10:00pm in 26-100 and October 5, 2003 at 10:00pm in 26-100. "The first action-parody of the buddy cop genre...Director Ron Shelton
takes all of the cop movie clichés and inflates them until they pop." "To take 'Hollywood Homicide' at surface level is to miss the
point...underneath it has a soul." In a spot-on parody of the buddy-cop genre and Hollywood in general, Harrison Ford, along with flavor-of-the-day heartthrob Josh Hartnett, are cops...in Hollywood. A modern Hollywood, in which the glamour is gone, nothing really quite makes sense, inspiration has made way for merchandising, and everyone is trying to sell a script or a headshot. To afford the decadently expensive lifestyle, cops can't live on their policeman salaries alone, so they have second jobs. Ford is a real estate agent who, while he hasn't been particularly successful at selling anything, is adept at negotiating on his cellphone during shootouts. Hartnett's a Yoga instructor who dreams of acting on stage, and can never remember the names of the gorgeous young women in his class, despite the fact that he has bedded many of them. They're called in to investigate the murder of an up-and-coming rap group, and end up in a variety of extremely amusing situations, including a chase sequence in which the vehicles range from a little girl's bicycle to a minivan complete with screaming kids in the back to a paddleboat in a pond. |
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