The Hard Way (film)

The Hard Way is a 1991 action-comedy film starring James Woods and Michael J. Fox and directed by John Badham. The film also had notable performances by Stephen Lang, Annabella Sciorra, Luis Guzmán, LL Cool J, Delroy Lindo, Penny Marshall, and Bryant Gumbel, as himself. Also making early appearances were Christina Ricci, Mos Def, Kathy Najimy, Michael Badalucco, Mary Mara, and Lewis Black. It was the first film appearance in 14 years of Karen Gorney, since she starred in Badham's Saturday Night Fever in 1977.

Directed by John Badham
Produced by Lem Dobbs
Michael Kozoll

Tagline : There's only one way these two are going to get along...

Cast

Michael J. Fox - Nick Lang / Ray Casanov

James Woods - Detective Lt. John Moss, NYPD

Stephen Lang - Party Crasher

Annabella Sciorra - Susan
John Capodice - Detective Grainy, NYPD

Luis Guzmán - Detective Benny Pooley, NYPD

LL Cool J - Detective Billy, NYPD

Mary Mara - Detective China, NYPD

Delroy Lindo - Captain Brix, NYPD

Conrad Roberts - Witherspoon, Gun Dealer

Penny Marshall - Angie, Nick's Agent

Christina Ricci - Bonnie

George Cheung - Drug Dealer
Frank Geraci - Newsman
Sophie Maletsky - Pizza Waitress

Plot

Fox stars as Nick Lang, a rich and spoiled Hollywood actor who grew to fame as a child star but is now best known as "Smoking" Joe Gunn, the title character in a series of highly popular action films that seem to be Indiana Jones rip-offs. Despite his extreme popularity as a celebrity, Lang feels that he can't take his career seriously until he lands "mature" roles, and defies his agent's advice by openly competing with Mel Gibson (who is mentioned but never appears) for the leading role in the heavy cop drama Blood on the Asphalt. To gain the upper hand on Gibson, Lang "prepares" for the role by attempting to be an actual cop. To do this, he pulls strings with Mayor David Dinkins and is appointed as a partner to a homicide detective on the NYPD, Lieutenant John Moss (Woods). This frustrates Moss for several reasons, most notably because it pulls him off of the case he was investigating, a serial killer known as "the Party Crasher" (played by Lang). Moss defies orders by continuing the investigation anyway and repeatedly trying to ditch Lang, whose constant questions and other annoying habits nearly drive Moss insane. In typical buddy movie fashion, Lang and Moss end up becoming unlikely friends despite their differences, and ultimately team up to defeat the Party Crasher.

This movie was remade in Hindi under the title "Main Khiladi Tu Anari" (I am the hero, you the dimwit) with Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan reprising the roles of James Woods and Michael J. Fox respectively. The situations and dialogues were translated verbatim in Hindi. The movie went on to become a big hit in 1993-94.

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