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Bad Boys
Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
1995 · Directed by Michael Bay · 119 min · Action · Thriller · Crime · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 11 frames
Tagline
Whatcha gonna do?
Plot
Lifelong friends Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are devoted Miami Police narcotics detectives investigating $100 million of seized Mafia heroin, their biggest career bust, which has been stolen from a secure police vault. Internal Affairs suspects that it was an inside job and threatens to shut down the entire department unless they recover the drugs within 72 hours.
Mike asks one of his informants and ex-girlfriend Maxine "Max" Logan to look for people who are newly rich and, therefore, suspects. She gets herself and her best friend, Julie Mott, hired as escorts by Eddie Dominguez, a crooked former cop.
The party is soon interrupted by Dominguez's French drug kingpin employer, Antoine Fouchet, and his henchmen, Casper, Ferguson, and Noah Trafficante (who informed Fouchet of Eddie's recklessness). Fouchet, sensing that Max has seen too much, shoots and kills her. He also shoots Eddie in the leg, realizing he is a liability, and has his henchman kill Eddie. Julie hides in the bathroom and escapes as the madam who hired Julie and Max is killed by Noah, who then knocks out Mike as he investigates Max's murder.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Michael Barrie, Jim Mulholland, Doug Richardson
- Cinematography: Howard Atherton
- Edited by: Christian Wagner
- Music: Mark Mancina
- Production design: John Vallone
- Produced by: Jerry Bruckheimer, Don Simpson
Cast
- Will Smith as Mike Lowrey
- Martin Lawrence as Marcus Burnett
- Téa Leoni as Julie Mott
- Tchéky Karyo as Fouchet
- Joe Pantoliano as Captain Howard
- Theresa Randle as Theresa Burnett
- Marg Helgenberger as Alison Sinclair
- Nestor Serrano as Detective Sanchez
- Julio Oscar Mechoso as Detective Ruiz
- Saverio Guerra as Chet The Doorman
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Columbia Pictures, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films
- Budget: $19,000,000
- Box office: $141,407,024
- Themes: miami, florida, mexican standoff, male friendship, witness protection, stripper, car crash, strip club, internal affairs, police corruption, gunfight
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