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Summary:
All he wanted to do was go
home and get a drink. But at 8:02 a.m., hungover NYPD detective Jack Mosley is
assigned a seemingly simple task. Petty criminal Eddie Bunker is set to testify
before a grand jury at 10:00 a.m. and needs to be taken from lock-up to the
courthouse, 16 blocks away. Broken down, out of shape, with a bad leg and a
serious drinking problem, Jack’s role on the force is simple--clock in, clock
out and stay out of trouble in between. He’s in no mood to deal with a punk
who’s been in and out of jail for more than half his life. But beneath the punk
in Eddie lies a man committed to turning his life around and constantly
searching for “signs” that will lead him to a brighter future. In Eddie Jack
sees only a pathetic rat who was offered a sweet deal. When Jack shoves Eddie
into the back of his car and pulls out into the morning New York city rush hour,
he doesn’t notice the van looming behind them. His head throbbing, and Eddie’s
flair for conversation only making it worse, Jack stops off at the local liquor
store to pick up some breakfast. As Eddie waits inside the locked car, fuming at
getting stuck with Jack as his escort, he’s suddenly faced with a much bigger
problem--a loaded gun pointed at his head. Jack emerges just in time to prevent
Eddie’s execution, killing one assassin and narrowly escaping a second. When
Jack calls for backup, homicide detective Frank Nugent and his team are first to
arrive at the scene. Eddie suddenly goes pale--one of the detectives on Nugent’s
team is the man he is supposed to testify against. In an instant, Jack’s quickie
trip downtown turns into the nightmare of a lifetime: the criminals that want
Eddie dead are actually cops. There’s a history between Jack and Nugent--a dark
history that Jack has been desperately trying to forget. And as Nugent is quick
to point out to his old friend, Eddie’s testimony threatens to bring them all
down. Nugent offers to stage a mock hostage situation in which Eddie is killed
and Jack does what he does best--walk away. But this time, Jack has been pushed
too far and seizes his last opportunity to do the right thing. A split second
before Nugent’s team can execute Eddie, Jack sets in motion a chain of events
that will irrevocably impact all of their lives. Battling against time and the
corrupt cops gaining on their every move, Jack and Eddie fight their way to the
courthouse block by gut-wrenching block.
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Box Office Info:
Cast:
Bruce Willis (as Jack Mosley )
Mos Def (as Eddie Bunker )
David Morse (as Frank Nugent )
Cylk Cozart (as Jimmy Mulvey )
Tig Fong (as Briggs )
Kean (as Ong )
Michael F. Keenan (as Fitzpatrick )
Conrad Pla (as Detective Ortiz )
Robert Racki (as Jerry shue )
Sasha Roiz (as Kaller )
Joseph Siravo (as District Attorney Haynes )
David Zayas (as Officer Robert Torres )
Directed By: Richard Donner
Written By: Richard Wenk
Produced By: Warner Bros
Release Date (US): March 3rd, 2006
Length of Movie: 1h 45min
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, intense sequences of action, and some strong language
Budget: $
Opening Weekend: $11,855,260
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