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- 2003
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 2003
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Summary Veteran detective Joe Gavilan (Ford) is on the biggest case of his career and saddled with a new partner, K.C. Calden (Hartnett), who can't quite decide between being a cop or an aspiring actor. (Sony)
Directed By: Ron Shelton
Written By: Robert Souza, Ron Shelton
- 2003
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 2003
- PG-13
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Hollywood Homicide
47
8.1
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Summary Veteran detective Joe Gavilan (Ford) is on the biggest case of his career and saddled with a new partner, K.C. Calden (Hartnett), who can't quite decide between being a cop or an aspiring actor. (Sony)
Directed By: Ron Shelton
Written By: Robert Souza, Ron Shelton
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
47
28% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
47% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
25% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
47
28% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
47% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
25% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
At its best, "Hollywood" has the breezy irreverence and easy, sunny L.A. atmosphere of Shelton's 1992 "White Men Can't Jump," a buddy-buddy basketball-hustle movie.
A definite improvement on the recent spate of dull action movies, if only because it has such a marked sense of humor about itself and the genre it belongs to. But somehow it never quite finds its center.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 109 User Ratings
8.1
76% Positive
83 Ratings
83 Ratings
7% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
17% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 109 User Ratings
8.1
76% Positive
83 Ratings
83 Ratings
7% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
17% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
Hollywood Homicide is easily one of my all time favorite movies, my wife and I watch it regularly, and it is a great showcase of Harrison Ford's talents (Josh Heartnett is good too, naturally). It starts out very slowly, but ends up being gut-bustingly funny. Now, of course, I laugh my keister off the whole way through as the nuances of the movie and acting have been inscribed in my funny bone. Very classy storytelling.
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2 of the most weirdest partners for homicide detectives. As they solve murders they both also work multiple other jobs as well mixing them in with there detective work.
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Ford tries very hard to be eccentrically funny -- to the point of forced, slapsticky mugging -- but he looks terrible, his timing is way off and his character is so uptight, abrasive and unappealing that he makes miserable company.
Ultimately, this movie cowritten by Shelton and former L.A. police detective Robert Souza has more laughs than suspense, but not enough of either.
Inside this numbingly formulaic action comedy there's a small, quirky movie not screaming hard enough to get out--the kind of movie that director and co-writer Ron Shelton (“Bull Durham,” “Tin Cup”) could have had some real fun with.
Hollywood Homicide knows it's a dog, and it ain't too proud to beg.
Yup, Hollywood Homicide”rips off practically every cop movie out there. My god in heaven, did anyone making this film have an original thought in their lives?
Hollywood Homicide isn't so much an awful comedy as it as an astonishingly dull buddy cop flick. Nothing feels natural, from the "quirky" jobs that the cops have on the side, to the "goofy" dialogue they have, to the "far-fetched" murder mystery. It's an incredibly forced farce.
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What's the joke? Not sure I get how garbage like this outshines Goodfellas or the Godfather as crime movies.
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Awards
Yoga Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
