48 Hrs. (1982)
15 Dec 2006
Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect.
- Tagline: The boys are back in town. Nick Nolte is a cop. Eddie Murphy is a convict. They couldn’t have liked each other less. They couldn’t have needed each other more. And the last place they ever expected to be is on the same side. Even for… 48 HRS
- Plot Outline A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
- Actors: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O’Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar
- Directors: Walter Hill
- Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
- Rating
- Studio: Paramount
- DVD Release Date: January 26, 1999
- Run Time: 96 minutes
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