Hollywood Homicide

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Hollywood Homicide

original film poster
Directed by Ron Shelton
Written by Robert Souza
Ron Shelton
Starring Harrison Ford
Josh Hartnett
Lena Olin
Bruce Greenwood
Isaiah Washington
Lolita Davidovich
Master P
Kurupt
Lou Diamond Phillips
Dwight Yoakam
Martin Landau
Distributed by Sony Pictures
Release date(s) 2003
Running time 116 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

Hollywood Homicide is an action comedy 2003 film starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett. Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Gladys Knight, Clyde Kusatsu, Master P, Lena Olin, Dwight Yoakam, Martin Landau and André Benjamin have supporting roles, and Eric Idle makes a cameo appearance. It was rated PG-13 by the MPAA. Written by Robert Souza and Ron Shelton, directed by Ron Shelton and produced by Lou Pitt.

The film is based on the true life experiences of Robert Souza, who was a homicide detective in the LAPD Hollywood Division and moonlighted as a real estate broker in his final ten years on the job.

  • Tagline: When time is running out, one shot is all you get

[edit] Plot

Ford stars as Joe Gavilan, a financially strapped Hollywood homicide detective who moonlights as a real estate broker. He is partnered with KC Calden (Hartnett), a much younger officer who teaches yoga on the side. The duo are assigned to investigate the murders of four men, members of a rap group who were gunned down in a nightclub.

In addition to the case, they must also deal with an unscrupulous Internal Affairs detective (Greenwood) who has a personal grudge against Gavilan and is eager to frame him with phony charges.

[edit] Reception

The film was not received well by critics. On the film review website RottenTomatoes.com, it only has a 29% approval rating. One of the few major critics to give it a positive notice was Roger Ebert, who awarded the film 3 (out of 4) stars.


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Films directed by Ron Shelton

Bull Durham (1988) • Blaze (1989) • White Men Can't Jump (1992) • Cobb (1994) • Tin Cup (1996) • Play It to the Bone (1999) • Dark Blue (2002) • Hollywood Homicide (2003)
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