Meet the two toughest cops in town. One's just a little smarter than the other!
The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...
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Effortless, unpretentious, classical in form and resolved.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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- John Chardon TMDB · Dec 20177/10
The super cop and James Belushi! Pursuing crime boss Lyman, maverick cop Dooley is tipped over the edge when a false lead ends up with an attempt on his life. Determined to finally get his man, Dooley enlists the help of a police dog called Jerry Lee (The Killer) to hopefully sniff out the drugs that he knows Lyman is involved in. Trouble is is that Dooley has no idea how to treat a dog and Jerry Lee is more of a maverick cop than he is! Given its low rating, it's hard to know what sort of film the critics and general movie watching public were expecting with this one. Since a buddy buddy cop movie staring James Belushi and a German Shepherd Dog doesn't say anything other than the film we actually get. By the time of K-9's release it was evident what sort of film would be Belushi's staple money earner, the kind that called for him to play the cocky quipper with a glint in his eye. Belushi would try to abandon his buffoonery roles post Curly Sue (who could blame him after that mess really?), and attempt to be a more dramatic action type actor. It wouldn't work, his excellent performances in Oliver Stone's Salvador and The Principal (the latter also criminally undervalued) were long
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Cast
- Jim BelushiMike Dooley
- Mel HarrisTracy
- Kevin TigheLyman
- Ed O'NeillBrannigan
- James HandyCaptain Byers
- Daniel DavisHalstead
- Cotter SmithGilliam
- John SnyderFreddie
- Pruitt Taylor VinceBenny the Mule
- Sherman HowardDillon
Crew
- Rod DanielDirector
- Scott MyersScreenplay
- Steven SiegelScreenplay
- Dean SemlerDirector of Photography
- Miles GoodmanOriginal Music Composer
- Lois Freeman-FoxEditor
- Lawrence GordonProducer
- Charles GordonProducer
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