Rent-a-Cop
Rent-a-Cop is a 1987 American thriller comedy starring Burt Reynolds and Liza Minnelli. Reynolds plays a disgraced police officer, now working as a security guard, who falls in love with Minnelli, who plays a prostitute.
Plot
Chicago cop Tony Church and his team are completing a drug bust. Just as the cops make the arrest a masked thief called Dancer intervenes and executes all of the officers. Church attempts to apprehend Dancer but Dancer outwits him and takes a hostage Della. Della manages to escape as Dancer flees and Church is left facing the blame of the disastrous bust and winds up getting fired from the force.
Awards
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| author | Michael Blodgett |
|---|---|
| award | Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress |
| contentLocation | Rome |
| director | Jerry London |
| editor | Robert Lawrence |
| genre | action comedy crime thriller |
| keywords | corrupt cop drug bust force kill mask only way security guard shopping mall |
| musicBy | Jerry Goldsmith |
| nomination | Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress |
| producer | Raymond Wagner |
| productionCompany | Kings Road Entertainment |
| publisher | Kings Road Entertainment |
| theme | action comedy comedy thriller crime comedy police comedy security and surveillance |