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A rap group poised for success is
murdered on stage. An LAPD veteran detective (Harrison Ford) who
moonlights as a real estate agent and his young partner (Josh
Hartnett) who really wants to be an actor, are assigned to the case.
Also with Keith David, Lolita Davidovich and Bruce Greenwood.
Directed by Ron Shelton. [1:51]
SEX/NUDITY 5 - A nude woman sits in a hot tub (we san see the
obscured outline of her body), a man (he's clothed) climbs into the hot tub and
they kiss. A woman wearing a sheer top (we can see her bra), kisses a man,
covers his eyes with a scarf, pushes him onto a bed, removes his pants (we see
him in boxers), and she removes her shirt (we see her bra and abdomen); we then
see him bare-chested kissing the back of her neck and her bare shoulders and we
see her in bed the next morning. A woman waits for a man in a house lit with
candles, he enters the room, they talk about handcuffs, they kiss, she lies
back, he kisses her knee, and then he climbs on top of her and they kiss. A man
and a woman are shown sleeping in bed together: we see his bare chest and back
and her bare back and legs. A man and a woman kiss, and a woman kisses a man on
the cheek. Men and women are shown dancing together in a night club in a few
scenes. A man thrusts his hips toward a two-way mirror. We see a yoga class a
few times and when women bend over another man (and the camera) focus on their
buttocks. A man's locker is filled with books on sexual techniques. Two men talk
about prostitutes and paying for sex: one sees the other picking up a prostitute
and doesn't realize that "she" is an undercover male police officer dressed as a
woman. Two men talk about frequency and availability of sex. Women wear clothing
that reveals cleavage, bare shoulders, bare backs, bare abdomens and legs in
several scenes. Women wear bikinis around a pool. We see prostitutes several
times: once in a police station, and a couple of times on a street approaching a
car. A woman looks at a man and says "That looks really hard..." (she's actually
talking about a yoga position).
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - A scene at a morgue shows dead bodies on slabs;
an autopsy is underway and we see the scalpel cutting into a male body's chest
(we hear squishing and blood sprays on a person standing nearby, and he gags a
few times) and another body is badly charred. A man shoots two men, puts their
bodies in a car, drenches the car with gasoline, a flare is tossed under the car
and it explodes. A man shoots two men: one is hit and the other runs and hides
and we later hear that four men in all were killed (we see two dead bodies later
at the scene along with walls riddled with holes and bloody shoe prints). A man
shoots at another man on a crowded subway train (people duck and scream), and
two men shoot at each other through a crowded office. Three men are shot at by
people in a car and a building behind them begins to crumble. A car chase takes
many cars through traffic: one goes the wrong way for a time, and one rams into
the other and moves it out of the way. Cars race through streets and alleys,
other cars crash around them, one car drives on a sidewalk, pedestrians scatter
and scream, a police car flips and slides on its roof, road workers are nearly
hit, and two cars slam into each other (one man has a bloody nose and another
has blood on his head). People shoot back and forth at each other while running
and innocent bystanders run and scream, a man jumps off a balcony and crashes
onto a cart below, a man punches a man, and a man commandeers a van with a woman
and two children in it (the kids and woman scream and cry as the man chases
another car). A man commandeers a bicycle and rides it recklessly through
streets and sidewalks, he crashes into an open car door, and falls to the
street. A car crashes through a false wall. A man shoots at two men in a car (he
thinks they are stealing it), the car crashes onto a sidewalk, the men in the
car get out, are held at gunpoint, and people scatter and scream. A man grabs a
police officer's gun, shoots up a parking lot hitting many cars, another man
tackles him to the ground and holds him down. A man running down an alley is
punched hard in the face knocking him to the ground (we see blood on his nose),
the man who hit him holds a gun on him, the man pleads for his life, gets the
gun and shoots the other man several times (we see bloody holes in his coat
sleeves). Two men fight on a rooftop: they shoot at each other, one swings a
metal bar, one is slammed into a metal beam, they exchange punches, they jump
across rooftops (both men have bloody faces) and one falls from the rooftop and
slams hard into an empty dumpster. We see a dead man lying on the ground with a
blood stain on his shirt. A man is punched in the face and the stomach. A man
chases another man on foot, he jumps into a paddle boat, the man points a gun at
him, they run back and forth, another man trips the man being pursued and he
falls to the ground where he is handcuffed. A man pulls a gun when he hears a
noise in his back yard, a man pulls a gun when he hears someone entering his
house. A man talks about his father having been killed in the line of duty and
we hear details of the killing read from a police report. A man shoves a woman,
and several men grab him and hold him. A man says he wants to kill a man and two
men yell at each other. A man talks about the Grim Reaper getting his head
chopped off by his father. People are shown shooting pistols at a shooting range
a couple of times. A man urinates in his pants (we see and hear trickle) and we
see a puddle of urine on the floor in another scene.
PROFANITY 5 - 3 F-words, 4 not fully enunciated F-words, 3 sexual
references, 38 scatological terms, 25 anatomical terms, 15 mild obscenities, 9
religious profanities, 14 religious exclamations, 1 derogatory term for Polish
people (in a script) and 1 derogatory term for African-Americans. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Murder, greed, the recording industry, dirty
police officers, dreams, goals, doing prison time, police brutality, death of a
parent, Internal Affairs, the performing arts, revenge, psychics.
MESSAGE - Often we have inflated ideas about our talents.
(Note: People are shown smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and a woman
talks about people doing crack cocaine.)
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