Bad Company (2002 film)
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| Directed by | Joel Schumacher |
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| Screenplay by | Jason Richman Michael Browning |
| Story by | Gary M. Goodman David Himmelstein |
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| Music by | Trevor Rabin |
| Cinematography | Dariusz Wolski |
| Edited by |
Mark Goldblatt Robert Lambert |
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| Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
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Release date
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June 7, 2002 |
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Running time
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116 minutes |
| Country |
 United States Czech Republic |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70 million |
| Box office | $66 million |
Bad Company is a 2002 American-Czech action-comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock. The film became somewhat famous for its connections to the September 11th terrorist attacks; amongst other things, it was the last major production to film inside the former World Trade Center. The film plot, written years before the attacks, involved a variety of Islamic extremists (including a man from Afghanistan) planning a huge attack in New York City. The movie's release date was moved out of its late 2001 spot and into a summer 2002 release, similar to several other films with terrorism or violent crime-related stories, including Collateral Damage and Training Day.
When a mission to retrieve a stolen suitcase bomb goes bad, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent Kevin Pope (Rock) is killed. Pope was working undercover as an antiquities dealer under the name Michael Turner. The CIA, which is desperate to complete the mission, discovers that Agent Pope had a twin brother, Jake Hayes (also Rock), from whom he was separated at birth; their mother died giving birth and Hayes suffered from a severe lung infection that prompted the doctors to separate them because they felt that Hayes was unlikely to live for very long. Hayes hustles chess games, scalps tickets and works at small clubs in Jersey City, New Jersey to make ends meet. Meanwhile, Hayes's girlfriend, Julie (Kerry Washington) grows tired of waiting for him to grow up and decides to move to Seattle, Washington.
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