Beverly Hills Cop (film)

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is an Academy Award nominated American action comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. The film shot Murphy to international stardom, won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture (1985) and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical (1985). It earned an estimated US$ 234 million at the box office, narrowly making it the second biggest hit of 1984 (next to Ghostbusters). It was ranked 22 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".

Tagline: "The Heat Is On!"

Cast
Eddie Murphy : Det. Axel Foley
Gilbert R Hill : Inspector Douglas Todd
James Russo : Mikey Tandino
Judge Reinhold : Det. William 'Billy' Rosewood
John Ashton : Det. Sgt. John Taggart
Lisa Eilbacher : Jeannette 'Jenny' Summers
Ronny Cox : Lt. Andrew Bogomil
Paul Reiser : Jeffrey
Steven Berkoff :Victor Maitland
Jonathan Banks : Zack (Maitland's Right Hand Man)
Bronson Pinchot : Serge

Stephen Elliott : Beverly Hills Police Chief Hubbard
Art Kimbro : Beverly Hills Police Detective Foster
Joel Bailey : Beverly Hills Police Detective McCabe
Michael Champion : Casey
Frank Pesce : Cigarette Buyer in Detroit Alley
Gene Borkan : Cigarette Truck Driver
Michael Gregory : Beverly Palms Hotel Manager
Alice Cadogan : Beverly Palms Hotel Clerk
Philip Levien : Donny
Karen Mayo-Chandler : Maitland's Receptionist
Gerald Berns : Beverly Hills Cop #1
William Wallace : Beverly Hills Cop #2
Israel Juarbe : Beverly Palms Hotel Room Service Waiter
Randy Vasquez : Beverly Palms Hotel Bellhop
Damon Wayans : Fruit Plate Vendor at Beverly Palms Hotel (aka Banana Man)
Charles Adamson : Warehouse Crate Opener #1
Chip Heller : Warehouse Crate Opener #2
Rick Overton : Bonded Warehouse Night Supervisor
Rex Ryon : Bonded Warehouse Security Guard
Mike Pniewski : Bonded Warehouse Clerk #1
Douglas Warhit : Bonded Warehouse Clerk #2
Paul Drake : Strip Club Holdup Man #1 (aka Philip)
Tom Everett : Strip Club Holdup Man #2
Sally Kishbaugh : Strip Club Waitress
Chris Rock : Harrow Club Valet
Barry Shade : Harrow Club Valet
Jack Heller : Harrow Club Maitre'D
Michael Harrington : Harrow Club Arresting Officer
David Wells : Beverly Hills Police Dispatcher
Scott Murphy : Beverly Hills Police Detective Owensby
Dennis Madden : Detroit Cop #1
John Achorn : Detroit Cop #2
John Pettis : Detroit Cop #3
Nicholas Shields : Detroit Station Cop #1
Carl Weintraub : Detroit Station Cop #2
Anthony De Fonte : Detroit Station Cop #3
Darwyn Carson : Barmaid
Mark E. Corry : Pool Player (in Detroit Bar)
Thomas J. Hageboeck : Maitland Bodyguard
Martin Brest : Beverly Palms Hotel Checkout Clerk (uncredited)

Plot
Reckless but talented Detroit policeman Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) comes home one night to find his best friend Mikey Tandino (James Russo) in his apartment, fresh from a job he got in Beverly Hills working for another childhood friend, Jenny Summers (Lisa Eilbacher). Mikey shows off some German bearer bonds he "borrowed" from his employers, but Axel is more interested in catching up with his old friend. Later that night, Axel and Mikey are accosted outside Axel's apartment by a burly man named Zack (Jonathan Banks). Zack knocks Axel unconscious, confronts Mikey about the bearer bonds, then kills him with a shot to the head. After Axel comes to, he asks his boss, Inspector Todd (Gilbert R. Hill) to be let in on the case, but Todd flatly refuses. Deciding to secretly root around from a different angle, Axel asks for and is granted two weeks' vacation time.

Axel then drives his "crappy blue Chevy Nova" all the way to Beverly Hills, and, masquerading as a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine, manages to check into a suite at the high-end Beverly Palm Hotel. He then meets up with his old friend Jenny, who tells Axel that Mikey worked for art dealer Victor Maitland (Steven Berkoff). Axel finagles his way into Maitland's office, where Zack is shown to be the art dealer's right-hand man. Axel presses Maitland for answers about Mikey, but Maitland has his bodyguards throw Axel out - literally – through a glass window on the main floor.

Axel is arrested for disturbing the peace by the Beverly Hills police and taken to the station, where he is questioned by Sergeant John Taggart (John Ashton) and Detective Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold). Taggart takes issue with Axel's irreverence and punches him in the stomach. Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) steps in to reprimand Taggart and presses Axel further, adding that he has spoken to Inspector Todd back in Detroit, who hints that Axel will be fired if he finds out that Axel is investigating Mikey's death.

Jenny bails Axel out, and takes him back to the hotel, tailed all the while by Taggart and Rosewood, who have been assigned to watch him. As the detectives watch and wait across the street from the hotel in an unmarked car, Axel places a late supper order with room service to be delivered to them. He then coaxes a waiter (Damon Wayans, in his film debut) to give him some bananas from a party tray, which he stuffs into the unmarked car's tailpipe while Rosewood and Taggart are distracted by the room service waiter. When Jenny and Axel are seen leaving the hotel, Taggart and Rosewood try to pursue, but their vehicle stalls, thanks to the bananas in the tailpipe.

Axel and Jenny first sneak into one of Maitland's warehouses, where they observe two of his men removing bearer bonds from a crate. Axel also discovers some coffee grounds around some of the crates. Axel then has Jenny follow the two men to a loading dock, where he sneaks in alone, noticing that the crate that formerly contained bearer bonds is placed among other crates waiting to be processed. When he crosses paths with a security guard, Axel passes himself off as a Customs inspector who demands to see the records for all the crates in the warehouse.

When Axel returns to the hotel, he spots Taggart and Rosewood still sitting in the unmarked car, waiting for him. Axel sneaks into the car, startling both men, then offers a truce of sorts, by letting them escort him to "someplace classy." The "someplace classy" turns out to be a stripper bar. While there, Axel notices two men entering the club wearing trench coats. Immediately suspicious because it is the month of June, he deduces that the men intend to rob the place. Axel's suspicions prove true, and the men produce shotguns from under their coats. Axel and Taggart successfully disarm the would-be robbers. Later, Axel lies to Bogomil that Taggart and Rosewood had tailed him to the strip club and that they deserve all the credit for the collar, but Taggart and Rosewood admit to Bogomil that they had accepted Axel's invitation to the establishment and that Axel had initiated the takedown. Though thankful that Axel had prevented the robbery, Bogomil is fed up with Rosewood and Taggart's seeming incompetence and assigns two other detectives, Foster (Art Kimbro) and McCabe (Joel Bailey) to tail Axel.

The next day, Foster and McCabe catch up to Axel, who is loitering outside Maitland's gated mansion. When Maitland's car emerges from the compound, Axel jumps into his Nova and follows, with the detectives on his tail. Axel artfully loses Foster and McCabe and follows Maitland to a high class country club. He convinces the maitre d' to let him into the banquet hall, where he directly accuses Maitland of killing Mikey. Zach and Axel brawl, which brings the police to the venue. Axel is arrested again.

At the police station, Bogomil demands answers, which Axel finally gives; Maitland is smuggling bearer bonds into the country and he had Mikey killed over those bonds. Axel also accuses Maitland of trafficking drugs, thanks to the coffee grounds that Axel found in the warehouse; Bogomil acknowledges that drug traffickers sometimes packed cocaine in piles of coffee grounds to throw off drug-sniffing dogs. Bogomil sympathizes with Axel, but admits that he cannot arrest Maitland on pure speculation. To make matters worse for Axel, Police Chief Hubbard (Stephen Elliott) has ordered him to leave Beverly Hills, having spoken with Todd back in Detroit. Bogomil, under orders from Hubbard, tells Rosewood to escort Axel to the city limits.

Axel convinces Rosewood to take him to see Jenny at the art gallery. Jenny tells them that Maitland is expecting another shipment, then insists on accompanying them to the warehouse. As Rosewood waits in the unmarked car, Axel and Jenny sneak into the warehouse, where Axel opens a crate that turns out to contain large bags of cocaine hidden inside a large mound of coffee grounds. Suddenly, Zach and his men take Axel and Jenny at gunpoint. Outside, Rosewood watches helplessly as Maitland and more of his men enter the warehouse. Axel and Maitland exchange words, and Zach admits to Axel about having killed Mikey. Maitland and Zach then leave with Jenny as their hostage, leaving Axel to the mercy of their men. Rosewood finally enters the warehouse and helps Axel to escape. On their way to Maitland's mansion, Rosewood contacts Taggart, telling him about the drugs in the warehouse and to not tell Bogomil about anything. Taggart tells Foster and McCabe to check out the warehouse, then rushes to meet up with Axel and Rosewood.

Axel, Taggart, and Rosewood sneak in to the mansion's grounds, but are soon pinned down by gunfire from Maitland's men. Back at the station, Bogomil is puzzled by the absence of the four detectives, then hears about the drugs at Maitland's warehouse, then a call of shots fired. When he discovers that the address where the shots were fired is Maitland's, Bogomil calls for all cars to descend on Maitland's mansion.

At the mansion, Axel tells Rosewood and Taggart to cover him as he prepares to enter the mansion. Inside, Zack has his weapon drawn and is hunting Axel. The lethal cat-and-mouse game ends with Axel shooting Zack dead. The victory is short-lived, however, as Axel takes a large caliber bullet in his arm, courtesy of Maitland. Bogomil and a fleet of police officers arrive at the compound and arrest Maitland's surveillance and security teams. Inside the mansion, Axel confronts Maitland, who is holding his gun to Jenny's head. Neither man moves, until Bogomil appears behind Axel with his gun pointed at Maitland. Jenny takes advantage of the moment to escape from Maitland, and Axel and Bogomil empty their guns into Maitland, killing him.

When the smoke clears, Hubbard shows up, demanding answers. Bogomil makes up a story, insisting that he himself had led the investigation into Maitland's activities, thanks to Jenny and Axel's tips, and that Axel was merely an observer at the scene. Skeptical at first, Hubbard finally decides to accept Bogomil's version of the events. Axel begs Bogomil to talk to Todd in Detroit, saying that if he lost his job in Detroit, he would move to Beverly Hills permanently and work as a private detective.

Axel prepares to check out of the Beverly Palm when Rosewood and Taggart arrive. They tell him that Bogomil insisted that they personally escort him to the city limits. When Axel's tab is produced, Taggart informs the desk clerk that the Beverly Hills Police Department will pick it up. Axel is moved by the gesture and "gives" each detective a hotel bathrobe (also paid for by the police department). Once outside, Axel offers to share a drink with his new friends; Taggart, who originally touted doing things "by the book," decides that one drink "won't kill us" and he and Rosewood follow Axel, who says that they will be going to "the perfect place; you guys'll love it. Trust me."

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