Fatal Beauty
Fatal Beauty is a 1987 American action comedy crime thriller film directed by Tom Holland, and starring Whoopi Goldberg as Detective Rita Rizzoli, and Sam Elliott as Mike Marshak. The screenplay was written by Hilary Henkin and Dean Riesner. The original music score was composed by Harold Faltermeyer. The film was marketed with the tagline "An earthquake is about to hit L.A. It's called Detective Rita Rizzoli."
Plot
LAPD detective Rita Rizzoli stages an undercover buy of a new strain of cocaine called "Fatal Beauty" with dealer Tito Delgadillo, but ruins it by leaving to save her informant Charlene from a beating by her pimp. Delgadillo steals her money and retreats to a warehouse in Chinatown where Fatal Beauty is manufactured. Two small-time hoods, Leo Nova and Earl Skinner, storm the warehouse and kill the entire gang, unknowingly stealing a botched batch of the drug. Rita later identifies Delgadillo's body and discovers another corpse in a van labeled "Kroll Enterprises." Rizzoli asks to investigate the company's owner, Conrad Kroll, but is rebuffed by her superior, Lt. Kellerman, due to Kroll's connections in Californian politics and Rizzoli's botching of her previous drug bust.
More details
| author | Dean Riesner Hilary Henkin |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Tom Holland |
| editor | Don Zimmerman |
| genre | action comedy crime thriller |
| keywords | addict beat beverly hills buy californian politics cocaine drug bust drug dealer drug dealing gunshot wound having a child as a teenager lapd los angeles police department phencyclidine politics of california preadolescence preteen rolls-royce security guard steal teenage pregnancy in the united states track down wound |
| musicBy | Harold Faltermeyer |
| producer | Leonard Kroll |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists |
| theme | action comedy comedy thriller crime comedy police comedy spy |