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Showtime (2002)
5.5/10 from 53554 users Updated : 2017-02-09
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Action , Comedy , Crime
Robert De Niro , Eddie Murphy , Rene Russo , Rachael Harris , Zaid Farid , Alex Borstein , Holly Mandel , Marshall Manesh , Nestor Serrano ,
T.J. Cross , Yasiin Bey , James Roday , Joel Hurt Jones , Chris Harrison , Perri Peltz , Amy Powell
Tom Dey
95
2002
LAPD Detective Sergeant Mitch Preston cares only about doing his job and nailing crooks. LAPD Patrol Officer Trey Sellars joined the force as a day job until his
acting career took off. During an undercover drug buy Mitch was working that Trey botched by calling in for backup and drawing media attention| Mitch's partner is
shot with a very exotic 12-gauge automatic weapon; Mitch then shoots the video camera out of the hands of a reporter filming the action when the cameraman refused to
shut it down. Faced with a $10 million lawsuit| the department agrees to let producer Chase Renzi film Mitch's investigation for a new reality TV show| and
constantly tries to make everything more "viewer friendly" by changing everything about Mitch's life to fit the stereotypical view of police officers--and partners
him with Trey.
Showtime starts out as a promising satire of the buddy cop genre. Unfortunately, it ends up becoming the type of movies it is satirizing.