Bad Boys (1995)
Bad Boys is a 1995 American action-comedy film directed by Michael Bay in his directorial debut, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, producers of Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop. The film, starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, spawned a 2003 sequel, Bad Boys II.
Directed by | Michael Bay |
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Produced by | Don Simpson Jerry Bruckheimer |
Screenplay by | Michael Barrie Jim Mulholland Doug Richardson |
Story by | George Gallo |
Starring | Martin Lawrence Will Smith Téa Leoni Tchéky Karyo Theresa Randle Joe Pantoliano |
Music by | Mark Mancina |
Cinematography | Howard Atherton |
Editing by | Christian Wagner |
Studio | Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date(s) | April 7, 1995 |
Running time | 118 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $19 million |
Box office | $141,407,024 (worldwide) |
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose
and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both 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.
Written by
James Hastie <jdh1000@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowrey is more of a
loose cannon. They are partners on the Miami Police Department, and they
are about to take on a highly dangerous case. 100 million dollars in
heroin, from the biggest drug bust of their careers, is stolen from
police headquarters. Now, they have 72 hours to reclaim the heroin
before the Internal Affairs Division gets involved. This puts Mike and
Marcus hot on the trail of a French drug kingpin named Fouchet. Mike
asks Maxine Logan, a hooker he knows, to keep an eye open for high
rollers. Later, she gets a call from a guy who's high on drugs and wants
to spend $2000. Maxine asks her best friend Julie Mott to tag along
with her to the home of former cop Eddie Dominguez. Julie is not a
hooker but the guy's so out of it that they'll be out of there with the
money in just minutes. But at Dominguez's house, Fouchet kills Maxine.
Julie witnessed the murder, so she contacts the police. But Julie, who
doesn't know what Mike looks like, is willing to talk only to Mike. Mike
is not around, so Marcus is forced to pretend to be Mike, and when Mike
returns, he's forced to pretend to be Marcus. Marcus is a family man
who has a wife named Theresa and three kids named James, Megan, and
Quincy, while Mike is not, so this is not a very close fit. Mike and
Marcus's pursuit of Fouchet kicks into overdrive when Fouchet's henchmen
kidnap Julie right out from under their noses.
Written by
Todd Baldridge
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