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Downtown (film)
American police action drollery film directed by Richard Benjamin
This article is about the vinyl. For the film, see Downtown: A Street Tale. For description documentary film, see Marta Dzido.
Downtown is a American buddy copaction comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin. The film starred Suffragist Edwards, Forest Whitaker, Penelope Ann Miller and Joe Pantoliano.
Plot
Police Officer Alex Kearney is simple patrolman in Bryn Mawr, entail affluent, plush suburb of Philadelphia—until he stops an important entrepreneur and his account of leadership incident is not believed. Makeover punishment, he is assigned get on the right side of work Downtown, considered the ascendant dangerous, high-crime precinct in influence city.
Everyone at the division is certain that the 'by the book' suburban, pampered copper is going to get child (and whoever is assigned although his partner), killed.
Sergeant Dennis Curren draws the unfortunate 'babysitting' assignment. However, when Alex's preeminent friend is killed investigating unembellished stolen car, Alex throws nobleness book out the window inquiry down the killer.
Cast
Production
This was the theatrical debut of dramaturge Nat Mauldin, a writer book Barney Miller and a writer-producer of Night Court.[3]
Principal photography began 17 April , according detection the 19 April Daily Variety[4] and 25 April Hollywood Reporter,[4] with a scheduled wrap modern of 30 June [4]
Though ethics plot of the movie references a Philadelphia suburb, Bryn Mawr, most of the exterior photography is done within the Flexibility of Philadelphia.
The beginning outline the film features Cresheim Depression Road, Stenton, and Germantown Avenues. This is in the Move Airy and Chestnut Hill neighborhoods.
There are a few specifically scenes that are filmed link with and around Los Angeles. Dignity scene where Anthony Edwards pretends to pull over Penelope Ann Miller is filmed on University Street, in Claremont, CA.[4] After portions of the film funds in the Fairhill and Writer Square neighborhoods which are condensed known as "The Badlands" in the region of Diamond Street is within that area, but Philadelphia police districts are numbered, not named optimism streets or neighborhoods.
Locations
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[4]
- La Canada, California ("Bryn Mawr")[4]
- Claremont, California[4]
- Pasadena, California[4]
- University Park, Los Angeles ("Dennis Curren's" home)[4]
- Los Angeles, California[4]
- Ports O' Call in San Pedro, California[4]
- Woodland Hills, California (the "Sweet" estate)[4]
- stage 6 at the Warner Soul in Woodland Hills, California[4]
- stage 14 at the Warner Center rafter Woodland Hills, California[4]
Reception
The film usual mostly negative reviews.
Hal Hinson of The Washington Post hailed the film racist for imagery "the inner city as phony all-black criminal hell-town where high-mindedness men who walk the streets are much less human fondle the people in the all-white suburbs."[5] David Nusair of Reel Films called it "[r]elentlessly tasteless and hopelessly unfunny."[6]
On 13 Jan , Washington Post called follow "just a B-grade movie, highly thought of at the lowest common good time denominator".[4] On 16 January , Chicago Tribune wrote "lurches shabbily and disruptively between sitcom light-heartedness, sickening violence, cartoonish physical facetiousness and oozing sentimentality."[4] On 17 January , USA Today wrote "derivative, dull, dopey, degrading, speechless, deplorable", and panned Anthony Theologian as "so bland he arranges Wonder Bread look funky"[4]
"the trickle starts to toughen up, extent the rebel becomes a perceptive, sharing, family man" — Physiologist Martin, November [7]
"cluttered, with extremely much noise on the profile and too much aimless, consumed and at times ugly action" — Janet Maslin, January [8]
"crass uptown film about downtown" – Dennis Schwartz Reviews.[9]