Bon Cop, Bad Cop
| Bon Cop, Bad Cop | |
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| Directed by | Eric Canuel |
| Produced by | Kevin Tierney |
| Written by |
Leila Basen Alex Epstein Patrick Huard Kevin Tierney |
| Starring |
Patrick Huard Colm Feore Michel Beaudry Patrice Bélanger Sarain Boylan Hugolin Chevrette Rick Howland Erik Knudsen Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse Lucie Laurier Sylvain Marcel André Robitaille Rick Mercer |
| Distributed by | Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm |
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Release date
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August 4, 2006 (Canada) August 18, 2006 (Rest of the world) |
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Running time
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116 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English/French |
| Budget | CAD $8,000,000 |
| Box office | $12,735,126 |
Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a 2006 Canadian dark comedy-thriller buddy cop film about an Ontarian and a Québecois police officers who reluctantly join forces to solve the murder. The dialogue is a mixture of English and French. The title is a translation word play on the phrase "Good cop/bad cop".
A sequel, Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2, was filmed in 2016 and is slated for release in 2017.
When a body is found hanging on top of the sign demarcating the Ontario-Quebec border, police officers from both Canadian provinces must join forces to solve the murder. David Bouchard (Patrick Huard) is a rule-bending, francophone detective for the Sûreté du Québec, while Martin Ward (Colm Feore) is a by-the-book anglophone Ontario Provincial Police detective. The bilingual detectives must resolve their professional and cultural differences as well as their bigotry and prejudices.
The body is identified as Benoit Brisset, a hockey executive. The clues lead the pair to Luc Therrien (Sylvain Marcel) at a roadside bar. After a fight in the bar, they imprison him in the trunk of Bouchard's car. Bouchard has promised to watch his daughter's ballet recital, so he drives to the recital and parks the car in front with Therrien still locked in the trunk. When they emerge, they find the car being towed from the no-parking zone, and as they try to chase down the truck driver, the car explodes.
With their prime witness dead, they decide to search Therrien's house where they find a large marijuana grow-op in the basement. They also discover another body, a former hockey team owner. A laser tripwire is activated by Bouchard, which sets the house on fire, destroying the house and causing the two cops to get high on the fumes of the burning marijuana. When they are disciplined by Bouchard's police chief shortly afterwards, he angrily removes them from the case after they start laughing hysterically because they're still high.
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