The Dead Pool
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Theatrical poster by Bill Gold
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| Directed by | Buddy Van Horn |
| Produced by | David Valdes |
| Screenplay by | Steve Sharon |
| Story by | Steve Sharon Durk Pearson Sandy Shaw |
| Based on | characters created by Harry Julian Fink R.M. Fink |
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| Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
| Cinematography | Jack N. Green |
| Edited by | Ron Spang Joel Cox (sup.) |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $31 million |
| Box office | $37,903,295 |
The Dead Pool is a 1988 American action film directed by Buddy Van Horn, written by Steve Sharon, and starring Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. It is the fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry film series, set in San Francisco, California.
The story concerns the manipulation of a dead pool game by a serial killer, whose efforts are confronted by the hardened detective Callahan. It co-stars Liam Neeson, Patricia Clarkson and Jim Carrey (in his first action dramatic role), each of whom eventually went on to greater film fame. It is the only film in the series to not feature Albert Popwell, an actor who had played a different character in each of the previous four films.
At 91 minutes, it is the shortest of the five Dirty Harry film series. Like those films, The Dead Pool is notable for coining catchphrases uttered by Clint Eastwood's gun-wielding character, one of which is:"Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one".
Fame finally catches up with Harry Callahan. His testimony against crime kingpin Lou Janero puts the mobster in prison and Callahan on the cover of San Francisco Magazine as the city's ace crime fighter. Callahan is attacked by Janero's men at a turnoff near the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge while driving. He knocks down one with his car and shoots the remaining men dead. Callahan discovers he has been assigned a partner: Asian American, martial arts-skilled partner Al Quan (Evan Kim). Unimpressed, he advises Quan to get a bulletproof vest, as his partners often get killed. They are assigned to investigate the death of rock singer Johnny Squares (Jim Carrey), who was killed in his trailer outside a meatpacking plant during filming of a music video for a slasher film directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson).
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