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Dec 8, 1982 · 48 Hrs.: Directed by Walter Hill. With Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae. A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him in order to track down a killer.
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- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Walter Hill
- 1982-12-08
48 Hrs. (pronounced 'forty-eight hours') is a 1982 American buddy cop action comedy film directed and co-written by Walter Hill, co-written by Larry Gross, Steven E. de Souza and Roger Spottiswoode, and starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy (in his film debut) as a cop and a convict, respectively, who team up to catch two hardened criminals.
May 19, 2024 · Cast of 48 Hrs. Movie ( 1982) • 55 total actors • 96 minutes. 48 Hrs. features a diverse cast of characters brought to life by talented actors. The story follows Jack Cates, a grizzled cop, as he teams up with Reggie Hammond, a quick-witted convict, to catch a pair of dangerous criminals.
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him in order to track down a killer. Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help.
He plays a convict who has done thirty months for theft and still has six months to go -- but he gets a forty-eight hour prison leave through the efforts of Nick Nolte, a hungover hot dog of a detective who's on the trail of some cop killers and figures Murphy can help.
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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.
