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48 Hrs (1982)
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer who is on the trail of half a million dollars that went missing after one of his robberies.
27 January 1953, Japan
24 November 1957, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 June 1923, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
23 January 1951, Detroit, Michigan, USA
12 November 1927, Reading, Ohio, USA
May 07, 2008
Fast-paced, frill-free action entertainment of the first order.
March 28, 2016
...a rather disappointing buddy comedy.
October 23, 2004
The movie's story is nothing to write home about. It's pretty routine. What makes the movie special is how it's made. Nolte and Murphy are good, and their dialogue is good, too -- quirky and funny.
October 26, 2008
The perfect buddy-cop movie! Murphy and Nolte are awesome!
February 17, 2011
It remains one of the better action-comedy buddy pictures you'll find.
April 06, 2011
A genuinely tetchy, risky race comedy
March 01, 2007
All in all, a superior genre piece, if not the height of Hill's artistry.
July 06, 2010
One of the first buddy action movies, 48 Hrs. laid the ground work for the sub-genre that was at its best during the 1980's.
January 26, 2006
A down-the-line thriller, plain, fast and efficient.
August 30, 2004
[It] is more memorable for its characters than for its high style, more a series of energetic scenes than a collection of handsome imagery. It has life, ferocity and humor in place of icy, stylized elegance, and that seems more than a fair trade.
June 06, 2009
Neither jokes nor fast, flashy action can completely distract audiences from the failure to establish an authentic, rather than a purely conventional connection between Nolte and Murphy.
August 26, 2014
Violence, profanity, racial epithets in dated '80s movie.