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A legal aid attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.A legal aid attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.A legal aid attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.
Thomas G. Waites
- Officer Kelly
- (as Tom Waites)
John C. McGinley
- Sean Phillips
- (as John McGinley)
Henry Judd Baker
- Big Leroy
- (as Judd Henry Baker)
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- TriviaWe first see Richie Marks (Sam Elliott) while he is inside a movie theater showing The Soldier (1982), which was also directed by James Glickenhaus.
- GoofsAt night time, when Roland gets caught at the precinct stealing the evidence from the locker, the shot moves to an exterior shot which shows the precinct by day - very sunny - then cuts back to an interior shot, again at night.
- Quotes
Richie Marks: You know what this is?
Tommie: It's a gun! It's a gun!
Richie Marks: Yeah, and you're a fuckin' genius! Now listen up. This gun is clean, no serial number. So if I blow out what's left of your brain and chuck it in the East River, your case is closed. The people downtown are gonna file you under DSAF. "Did Society A Favor." Got it?
- Alternate versionsOn its first run past the Australian classification board, the film was rated R. To garner a wider audience, Hoyts removed approx. 1 minute of footage so that the film could get an M rating. The footage removed included the "condom" scene with the old jailer, all references to homosexuality and snitches being "turned out", the scene outside the porno theater where the Nicky Carr's right-hand man guns down the bystanders after the cops and the Russian roulette scene in the police station. this footage was never reinstated for the film's VHS or subsequent DVD release.
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I don't think I'd seen this film since it originally came out in the theater. I remember thinking it was pretty ridiculous then, but it's aged better than I'd expected, mainly thanks to it's cast, the use of actual NYC locations, and 80s action film nostalgia value. Peter Weller plays a groovy lawyer and Sam Elliott plays a renegade narcotics detective. It's a cliche ridden story of Weller and Elliott then face off against drug dealers, corrupt police officers, and other assorted low-lifes. The script by writer/director James Glickenhaus is pretty awful, but his action sequences are serviceable. In the film's favor is the fun pairing of Elliott and Weller and also the use of grimy pre-Giuliani NYC locations, including one action sequence filmed at 42nd Street in Times Square when it was still a den of go-go bars, peep shows, and adult theaters. It was certainly a good thing that Giuliani cleaned up the streets of NYC, but when it comes to movies filmed in The Big Apple, I have a fond affection for films like "The Warriors", "Maniac", "Gloria", "C.H.U.D.", "Black Caesar", "Across 110th Street", "Combat Shock", or even Glickenhaus' own "The Exterminator" which all prominently featured the seedy side of the city that never sleeps. Also in the film's favor is that it featured more mullets than any recent action film I can think of outside of "Roadhouse". Overall, "Shakedown" is a highly routine buddy cop picture to the degree of being a genre stereotype, but it has enough positives to be enjoyed by fans of these sorts of films.
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,068,039
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,017,800
- May 8, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $10,068,039
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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