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MOVIE · 2002

Showtime

ActionAdventureComedyCrime95 min

When the LAPD decides to turn police work into a reality-TV series, two mismatched cops end up partnered both on the street and in front of the cameras. Robert De Niro is the no-frills veteran at the center of the assignment, while Eddie Murphy brings the opposite energy as the younger officer suddenly sharing his spotlight. As a criminal case unfolds, the movie turns buddy-cop chases, shootouts, and department politics into a broad Hollywood-media send-up, with the job itself becoming part investigation and part televised spectacle.

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