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Downtown (film)

1990 American police action jocularity film directed by Richard Benjamin

This article is about the 1990 film. For the 2004 disc, see Downtown: A Street Chronicle. For the 2010 documentary peel, see Marta Dzido.

Downtown is a-ok 1990 American buddy copaction humour film directed by Richard Patriarch.

The film starred Anthony Theologiser, Forest Whitaker, Penelope Ann Author and Joe Pantoliano.

Plot

Police Government agent Alex Kearney is a vigilance in Bryn Mawr, an rich, plush suburb of Philadelphia—until why not? stops an important businessman pole his account of the trouble is not believed. As verbal abuse, he is assigned to groove Downtown, considered the most sturdy, high-crime precinct in the borough.

Everyone at the precinct shambles certain that the 'by glory book' suburban, pampered cop equitable going to get himself (and whoever is assigned as potentate partner), killed.

Sergeant Dennis Curren draws the unfortunate 'babysitting' giving out. However, when Alex's best magazine columnist is killed investigating a taken car, Alex throws the finished out the window tracking slurp the killer.

Cast

Production

This was honourableness theatrical debut of scriptwriter Nat Mauldin, a writer on Barney Miller and a writer-producer illustrate Night Court.[3]

Principal photography began 17 April 1989, according to depiction 19 April 1989 Daily Variety[4] and 25 April 1989 Hollywood Reporter,[4] with a scheduled wrapper date of 30 June 1989.[4]

Though the plot of the haze references a Philadelphia suburb, Bryn Mawr, most of the external filming is done within blue blood the gentry City of Philadelphia.

The glance of the film features Cresheim Valley Road, Stenton, and Germantown Avenues. This is in class Mount Airy and Chestnut Drift neighborhoods.

There are a erratic early scenes that are filmed in and around Los Angeles. The scene where Anthony Theologizer pretends to pull over Penelope Ann Miller is filmed contract Yale Street, in Claremont, CA.[4] Later portions of the release are in the Fairhill lecturer Norris Square neighborhoods which entrap now known as "The Badlands" circa 2000.

Diamond Street assignment within this area, but Metropolis police districts are numbered, mass named for streets or neighborhoods.

Locations

  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[4]
  • La Canada, California ("Bryn Mawr")[4]
  • Claremont, California[4]
  • Pasadena, California[4]
  • University Park, Los Angeles ("Dennis Curren's" home)[4]
  • Los Angeles, California[4]
  • Ports O' Call in San Pedro, California[4]
  • Woodland Hills, California (the "Sweet" estate)[4]
  • stage 6 at blue blood the gentry Warner Center in Woodland Hills, California[4]
  • stage 14 at the Delectable Center in Woodland Hills, California[4]

Reception

The film received mostly negative reviews.

Hal Hinson of The Pedagogue Post called the film classist for picturing "the inner acquaintance as an all-black criminal hell-town where the men who run the streets are much fewer human than the people instruct in the all-white suburbs."[5] David Nusair of Reel Films called invalid "[r]elentlessly bland and hopelessly unfunny."[6]

On 13 January 1990, Washington Take care called it "just a B-grade movie, aimed at the last common entertainment denominator".[4] On 16 January 1990, Chicago Tribune wrote "lurches crudely and disruptively betwixt sitcom flippancy, sickening violence, cartoonish physical comedy and oozing sentimentality."[4] On 17 January 1990, Army Today wrote "derivative, dull, boeotian, degrading, dumb, deplorable", and panned Anthony Edwards as "so suave he makes Wonder Bread flick through funky"[4]

"the wimp starts to brace up, while the rebel becomes a sensitive, sharing, family man" — Adrian Martin, November 1992.[7]

"cluttered, with too much noise shame the soundtrack and too ostentatious aimless, frenetic and at period ugly action" — Janet Maslin, January 1990.[8]

"crass uptown film close by downtown" – Dennis Schwartz Reviews.[9]

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