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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, English, Subtitled, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
From Oscar®-nominated Ron Shelton (Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Bull Durham, 1989) this hot action comedy is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat...and in stitches. Starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett, Hollywood Homicide redefines the buddy-cop genre. In Hollywood, no one is who they really want to be. Veteran police detective Joe Gavilan (Ford) and his rookie partner K.C. Calden (Hartnett) are no exception. Between Joe's struggling real estate business and K.C.'s fledgling acting career and yoga instruction, they've got a major murder case to solve. With both Internal Affairs and their main suspect on their tails, Joe and K.C. have to infiltrate the dangerous world of the hip-hop recording industry. Juggling two careers proves to be a comical adventure, with Joe and K.C. desperate to stay alive long enough to catch their big break.
"Two Thumbs Up!" Ebert & Roeper
"Hollywood Homicide Will Keep You On The Edge Of Your Seat With Its Adrenaline-Pumped Action." Earl Dittman, Wireless Magazine
Editor's Note
Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) is an LAPD officer moonlighting as a real-estate agent to make ends meet. K.C. Calden (Josh Hartnett) is a fellow officer, sometimes masquerading as a yoga instructor to meet women, and harboring some serious acting aspirations. As the two struggle to pursue their sideline businesses, they get called up to investigate the mysterious murder of a rap group called H20 Klick. As the duo track down the killers, plenty of laughs ensue as they both desperately attempt to sell their alternative careers to anyone that crosses their paths. Joe attempts to sell property to the nightclub owner where the shootings took place, and K.C. endlessly quotes movie dialogue in an attempt to brush up on his acting skills at the most inopportune moments. The action builds to a frantic finale involving some spectacular--and hilarious--car chases around the crime-strewn streets of Los Angeles.Director Ron Shelton (BULL DURHAM) utilizes some eccentric casting (Martin Landau and Master P both have cameo roles), a string of witty one-liners, and spectacular location shoots to tell this humorous tale. Ford and Hartnett make a convincing on-screen partnership, clearly enjoying their roles as mismatched cop buddies, and providing plenty of laughs among the often chaotic, action-packed sequences.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Surround And Dolby Digital | | Scene Selection | | Anamorphic Widescreen And Full Screen Presentations | | Subtitles: English, French | | Mastered In High Definition | | Director's Commentary | | Filmographies | | Theatrical Trailers |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 2/28/2006 |
| Running Time: 116 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 00927 | | UPC: 00043396009271 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...[Harrison] proceeds, with wry nonchalance, to tap-dance, shuffle and pirouette through his loosest, wittiest performance in years..." 06/13/2003 p.E1Entertainment Weekly
"...Ford has only gotten surlier with age; he's now the sort of star whose scowl is far more winning than his smile..." 06/20/2003 p.52-3 Rolling Stone
"...There's a lively wink in Harrison Ford's performance....Credit the colorful dialogue to director Ron Shelton..." 07/10/2003 p.76 Sight and Sound
"...[Ford] is more animated than he's been in years..." 10/10/2003 p.48 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Funny low-key dialogue....[Shelton's] a master of goofy dialogue between guys..." 10/03/2003 p.13 Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
At Harrison Ford's age, this qualifies as a dangerous stunt. But Ford just gets better, more distilled, more laconic and more gruffly likeable, year after year. It is hard to catch him doing anything at all while he's acting, and yet whatever it is he isn't doing, it works. You don't feel he's going for laughs when he tries to sell the club owner a house, while the two of them are standing in fresh pools of blood, metaphorically speaking; you feel he desperately needs to unload the house. - Roger Ebert
L.A. Times 6 of 10
No one comes out of Hollywood Homicide looking good, but the film fades fast. Still, watching Ford trying to slip back into a friendlier, more ingratiating persona in a movie pounding with hip-hop beats and co-staring a teenage poster boy like Hartnett, you realize that even Indiana Jones isn't immune to the industry's endless slurping at the fountain of youth. Ford's recent attempts to push the limits of his screen persona may have been a function of boredom with the parts he ordinarily gets offered. Maybe after building a career on action rather than introspection he's tired of cracking the whip and saving the girl. Part of Ford's appeal is that he never comes off as interested in being a star, caught up in any of its attendant glamorous hooey. The problem is he doesn't seem deeply interested in being an actor either. - Manohla Dargis
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