Blue Streak
Blue Streak is a 1999 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Les Mayfield. Inspired by the 1965 film The Big Job, the film stars Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Dave Chappelle, Peter Greene, Nicole Ari Parker and William Forsythe. Lawrence plays Miles, a jewel thief who tries to retrieve a diamond he left at a police station, whereupon he disguises himself as a detective and gets paired with a real policeman to investigate burglaries. The film was shot on location in California. The prime shooting spot was Sony Pictures Studios, which is located in Culver City, California.
Plot
Jewel thief Miles Logan participates in a $17 million diamond heist in Los Angeles. He does this along with his crew of accomplices: his right hand and best friend Eddie, his getaway driver Tully, and Deacon, who is the newly acquired member of the group. Deacon turns on them, killing Eddie by shooting him off of a tall building and causing him to fall onto a police car, before attempting to take the stone from Miles. As the police arrive, Miles hides the diamond in the ducts of a building under construction; as Deacon flees, Miles is arrested.
More details
| author | Stephen Carpenter |
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| contentLocation | California Los Angeles |
| director | Les Mayfield |
| editor | Michael Tronick |
| events | Los Angeles Police Department |
| genre | action comedy crime |
| keywords | armed robbery armored truck arrest best friend build cut diamond diamond heist discover drug deal drug runner fbi federal bureau of investigation federal police force getaway driver heroin internal affairs jewel thief kill lapd mexico patrol car pizza delivery police detective police station release from prison search shoot sting sting operation test turn |
| musicBy | Edward Shearmur |
| producer | Neal H. Moritz |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures Daniel Melnick Original Film |
| publisher | Sony Pictures Releasing |
| theme | action comedy buddy comedy buddy cop crime comedy heist police comedy |