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Hollywood Homicide is a 2003 American buddy cop action comedy film starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett, with an ensemble supporting cast including Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Lolita Davidovich, Keith David, Gladys Knight, Master P, Dwight Yoakam, Eric Idle, Robert Wagner, Kurupt, Smokey Robinson, Lou Diamond Phillips, Martin Landau, and Andr Benjamin. It was directed by Ron Shelton, written by Shelton and Robert Souza, and produced by Shelton and Lou Pitt. The film is based on the true experiences of Souza, who was a homicide detective in the LAPD Hollywood Division and moonlighted as a real estate broker in his final ten years on the job. The film's title sequence is done by Wayne Fitzgerald, which marks it as his final time doing a title sequence before his death in September 2019.
Sergeant Joe Gavilan is a financially strapped homicide detective with the Hollywood Division of the LAPD. He has been moonlighting as a real estate agent for seven years. His current partner is Detective K.C. Calden, a much younger detective who teaches yoga on the side and wants to be an actor.
The partners are investigating the murders of the four members of rap group "H2OClick", who were gunned down in a nightclub by two unidentified assailants. The detectives discover there was a witness who fled, and they work to track him down. They are distracted, failing to bond as partners, as Gavilan has to deal with a looming real estate deal that may be the key to getting out of debt, while Calden further pursues his dreams of acting by trying to be scouted by talent agents.
Meanwhile, the manager of H2OClick, Antoine Sartain, has his head of security eliminate the two hitmen, whom he had hired to kill H2OClick, and earlier a rapper named Klepto that Sartain also managed.
Gavilan and Calden believe the murders are gang-related, but when Calden happens to see the bodies of the hitmen at the morgue, they conclude that the murders were orchestrated. The detectives also notice similarities that tie the H2OClick and Klepto homicides together. Gavilan learns from an undercover officer that the songwriter for H2OClick, a man named K-Ro, has gone missing, leading Gavilan to believe he is their murder witness. They struggle to track him down until they finally learn his real name, Oliver Robideaux, the son of former Motown singer Olivia Robideaux.
Meanwhile, Internal Affairs Lieutenant Bernard "Bennie" Macko arrives at the station. Macko and Gavilan have a bad history, as Gavilan embarrassed Macko after proving him wrong on a case years ago. The animosity is compounded by the fact that Gavilan's latest love interest, a psychic named Ruby, used to date Macko.
Macko is intent on ruining Gavilan, going so far as to try to frame him and place both detectives in interrogation. Instead, it only serves to help Gavilan and Calden strengthen their partnership. Gavilan offers to help Calden with the case of his father's death; Officer Danny Calden had been gunned down during a sting operation gone wrong, with his partner, Officer Leroy Wasley, being implicated but eventually released due to lack of evidence.
The partners track down K-Ro to his home, where Olivia professes her son's innocence and that Sartain was the real culprit. Sartain had been embezzling money from Klepto, H2OClick and other clients for years. Klepto and H2OClick discovered this and threatened to hire lawyers to nullify their contracts, which led Sartain to have his head of security hire the hitmen as a "lesson" to all his clients. Wasley is not only Sartain's security chief, but Macko is also in league with him.
When the partners cannot locate Sartain and Wasley, Gavilan enlists Ruby's help. She uses her psychic power to lead the two detectives to a clothing store. Just then, Sartain and Wasley happened to drive by, so Gavilan and Calden follow in a wild car chase. It ends with the four men on foot, with two separate chases.
In a struggle with Gavilan, Sartain ends up falling from the top of a building to his death. Wasley draws a gun on Calden and loudly brags about having killed his father. Calden utilizes his acting skills to distract and incapacitate Wasley, and reveals he had a tape recorder on the whole time. Gavilan and Calden reunite as LAPD officers swarm the scene. Macko appears and calls for the arrests of the partners, but instead he is arrested for his part in covering up Sartain and Wasley's crimes.
Gavilan and Ruby attend a production of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which Calden is in a lead role. It is implied that Gavilan successfully brokered the real estate deal, and Calden is giving his all in the pursuit of his acting dream. However, both of them receive calls from police headquarters and leave in the middle of the play, now solid partners.
Throughout filming, Ford and Hartnett reportedly did not get along. Things apparently got so tense that the two wouldn't even look each other in the eye when they're sharing scenes together with Ford calling Hartnett a "punk" while Hartnett responded by calling Ford an "old fart". They reportedly carried over the feud into the promotional tour for the film.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 30% based on 163 reviews, and an average rating of 4.71/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Hollywood Homicide suffers from too many subplots and not enough laughs."[1] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 47 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[2] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[3]
Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post wrote, "Hollywood Homicide is a buddy film starring two people who, even as the closing credits roll, appear to have just met" and added "every scene between them, and that's most every scene, feels like a screen test or, at best, a rehearsal."[4] One of the few major critics to give it a positive notice was Roger Ebert, who awarded the film 3 out of 4 stars and wrote "that it's more interested in its two goofy cops than in the murder plot; their dialogue redeems otherwise standard scenes."[5]
Hollywood Homicide was released on VHS and DVD on October 7, 2003.[8][9] The DVD edition included a director's commentary, cast and crew profiles and a theatrical trailer.[10] In 2013, Mill Creek Entertainment released the film for the first time on Blu-ray in a 2 pack set with Hudson Hawk, without any extra features.[11]
Hollywood Homicide Uncovered is a documentary series that relives the intense stories of horrific homicides where a celebrity is at the center of the crime. Each hour-long episode uncovers key information and clues showing viewers the case through dramatic recreations and adding details and insight from crime experts and individuals with a direct and personal relationship to the crime. Episode subjects include Robert Blake, Phil Spector, OJ Simpson, Dorothy Stratten, Tupac Shakur and Phil Hartman.
Dragnet cast its net over me in 1962, shortly after I was discharged from serving four years as a Navy medic. Newly married, I was working as an orderly at Kaiser Hospital in Hollywood and looking for something better. Something steady, but challenging. With just a GED (General Education Development, the equivalent of a high school diploma,) my opportunities were limited. Or, so I thought.
A month into my training, on March 9, 1963, the notorious Onion Field Murder occurred. The facts were slow in coming to us new recruits, but eventually we, like the rest of the public, got the full story.
Two Hollywood Division plainclothes officers, Ian Campbell, and Karl Hettinger were working a Z-car (special assignment car) and decided to stop and question a couple of hinky looking suspects. They approached to question the two men, and the suspects surprised them by drawing a gun and then disarmed both officers.
The two men kidnapped the two officers and forced them to drive north from LA about one hundred miles to an isolated onion field in Bakersfield. Forced out of the vehicle, at gunpoint, in the dark of night, they were ordered to lay on the ground.
Officer Ian Campbell was shot first, and at the sound of the gunfire, and with a cloud passing over the bright moon, his partner, Karl, bolted into the dark and managed to escape to a nearby farmhouse and call for emergency backup.
In my (and most others) opinion, the terrible treatment that officer Hettinger was forced to endure was not only shortsighted and sadistic it was also one of the LAPDs dumbest decisions. Brought on by a few unthinking, small minds, quarterbacking the field tactics of a dedicated patrol officer, as they sat in their ivory tower at the Police Administration Building.
Psychologically broken, and suffering from severe depression, Hettinger was eventually pensioned off the LAPD. He became a gardener and tried his hand at landscaping, and then relocated to Bakersfield, where he lived in a home just a short distance from the Onion Field murder scene.
By the end of 1969, I had become the divisional expert in sighting runaways and sinking same. I was bringing in an average of four missing kids a day. The Juvenile Detectives were pissed. Why? Because It was their job to conduct a follow-up interview of the arrestee, transport the subject to Juvenile Hall, then file a petition and assure all the paperwork and logistics were in place to get them back into the custody of their parents in Small Town U.S.A. It took a lot of time and made for a lot of work and the Old Salts, a male and female team who loved their three-martini lunches, were not at all happy with my personal crusade.
I rotated every four months from table to table. First, the Juvenile Unit, then to Auto Theft, Burglary, Sex Crimes, Robbery, then finally, to what was considered the plum assignment, Homicide Detail.
The deceased, a man of about seventy-five was lying nude and supine on the bed. No apparent trauma to the body. No ransacking or evidence of foul play. First glance, indicated nothing more than an elderly man who had passed away quietly in his sleep.
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