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Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Director: Martin Brest

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From Time Out Film Guide

Constructed purely to allow Murphy full rein, the movie leads with its strongest card: Murphy as a cop, black, dirty, fast, on a case of stolen Marlboros in Detroit. When he begins unofficially to investigate the death of a friend, the trail leads him to Beverly Hills. The only black comic who doesn't make white audiences feel guilty expertly steps into the gaping holes left specifically for him in the film, but the connecting stuff is just bagatelle. CPea.

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Cast & crew

Director: Martin Brest

Producer: Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Ronny Cox, Steven Berkoff full cast

Genre(s): Thrillers

Duration: 105 mins

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