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48 Hrs.
Paramount Pictures

48 Hrs. reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 71 Metascore out of 100
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MPAA RATING: R

Starring Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar, and David Patrick Kelly

Detective Jack Cates (Nolte) takes convict Reggie Hammond (Murphy) out of jail for forty-eight hours to solve a case.


GENRE(S): Action  |  Drama  |  Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: Roger Spottiswoode
Walter Hill
Larry Gross
Steven E. de Souza
 
DIRECTED BY: Walter Hill  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: January 26, 1999 
Theatrical: December 8, 1982 
RUNNING TIME: 96 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Male (Eddie Murphy).

What The Critics Said

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88
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
What makes the movie special is how it's made. Nolte and Murphy are good, and their dialogue is good, too - quirky and funny.
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88
TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
Together Cates and Hammond take a thrill-a-minute trip through the San Francisco underworld and along the way develop one of the 1980s' more interesting cinematic buddy pairings.
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80
Empire Ian Nathan
That the fact they come to appreciate one other, the grudging respect of a million clichés, feels so satisfyingly, shows just how successful the film is.
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80
The New York Times Janet Maslin
Walter Hill, the director of such beautiful but stilted tough guy movies as ''The Warriors'' and ''The Long Riders,'' has attempted something very different in 48 Hours a male-buddy action film that's positively witty and warm-hearted compared with his other work.
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75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jay Scott
A quick and clever thriller as nasty as a piece of shrapnel snapping the sound barrier, 48 Hrs. is as violent as it is funny. It is very funny. [03 Dec 1982]
70
Variety Staff (Not Credited)
48Hrs. is a very efficient action entertainment which serves as a showy motion picture debut for Eddie Murphy.
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70
Chicago Reader Dave Kehr
The film is still an entertaining and invigorating thriller, with a structure and some curious sexual overtones that suggest Howard Hawks's "A Girl in Every Port."
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40
Time Richard Schickel
Neither jokes nor fast, flashy action can completely distract audiences from the failure to establish an authentic, rather than a purely conventional connection between Nolte and Murphy.
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