Movie
1982
48 Hrs. is a 1982 American buddy cop action comedy film starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy as a cop and a convict, respectively, who team up to catch two hardened criminals. Directed by Walter Hill, from a screenplay co-written with Larry Gross, Steven E. de Souza and Roger Spottiswoode, and titled after the amount of time the duo has to solve the crime, 48 Hrs. marked Joel Silver's debut as a producer.
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Let me introduce you to an average cop movie of 1980s. The main hero is a rogue macho cop, who never goes by the book but whose success in taking out bad guys saves him from the wrath of his superiors, mostly embodied in black captain. At the beginning, our hero sees his partner/colleague/friend killed by the main bad guy, so his job becomes personal. His one-man-show investigation is strengthened by the presence of…More
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