Loaded Weapon 1
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| Directed by | Gene Quintano |
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| Music by | Robert Folk |
| Cinematography | Peter Deming |
| Edited by | Christopher Greenbury |
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| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8.2 million |
| Box office | $28 million |
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (also known simply as Loaded Weapon 1) is a 1993 American satirical comedy film directed by Gene Quintano, and written by Quintano and Don Holley based on a story by Holley and Tori Tellem. The film, starring Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Kathy Ireland, Frank McRae, Tim Curry and William Shatner, was released on February 5, 1993.
The film mainly spoofs the first three Lethal Weapon films, as well as other films, including Basic Instinct, Die Hard, Dirty Harry, Rambo, The Silence of the Lambs, Wayne's World, 48 Hrs. and TV series such as CHiPs.
In Los Angeles, Detective Billie York (an uncredited Whoopi Goldberg) is murdered by a man (Tim Curry) dressed as a Wilderness Girl because she possesses a microfilm with the recipe to turn cocaine into Wilderness Girls cookies and she won't hand it over to the ones who seek it. Her former partner, Wes Luger (Samuel L. Jackson), takes the case in an attempt to avenge her death. As part of the terms for letting Luger take the case, psychotic burned-out narcotics agent Jack Colt (Emilio Estevez) is assigned to the case with Luger. Under the advice of their captain (Frank McRae), they meet Dr. Harold Leacher (F. Murray Abraham), who informs Jack that the case has something to do with General Mortars (William Shatner), under whom Jack had worked during his days in Vietnam. Following Leacher's advice, they pursue the villains; however, before the villains are apprehended, Luger must journey into his past to realize the right thing to do.
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