Showtime (film)
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| Directed by | Tom Dey |
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| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography | Thomas Kloss |
| Edited by | Billy Weber |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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95 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $85 million |
| Box office | $77.7 million |
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| Soundtrack album (Digital download / Audio CD) by Various | |
| Released | March 15, 2002 |
| Label | MCA |
Showtime is a 2002 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Tom Dey. The film stars Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy in the lead roles alongside Rene Russo, William Shatner, Pedro Damian and De Niro's real life adopted daughter Drena De Niro. The film was released in the United States on March 15, 2002.
The film centers on two cops, Det. Mitch Preston (Robert De Niro) and Officer Trey Sellers (Eddie Murphy), who are paired for a reality police show and run into real trouble with a crime lord. The beginning of the story closely parallels that of the 1988 film The Dead Pool, in which Harry Callahan intentionally breaks a news camera and is subject to favors for the news channel as a result. In this film, Mitch breaks a news camera after a failed confrontation with a drug lord, who escapes by using a custom-built gun. Maxxis Television, the network that employed the cameraman, decides to sue the police department for $10 million, but will drop the lawsuit if Mitch agrees to star in a reality cop television show, which Trey later calls Showtime!.
Trey enters the picture shortly after, as an LAPD officer who actually wants to be an actor while also trying to become a detective. He pays a friend to snatch the purse of the show's producer, Chase Renzi (Rene Russo), and then retrieves it after a staged fight scene. Even though the deception is embarrassingly revealed, Chase is impressed and signs Trey on anyway. It is quickly revealed that the show's producers have little interest in filming an actual police officer's existence; they build a mini-movie set in the middle of the station, and replace Mitch's nondescript personal car with a Humvee. They also hire William Shatner (who once played T. J. Hooker) to give both men tips on how to act. Trey is eager to learn, Mitch is merely annoyed.
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