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Red Heat is a 1988 American action and comedy film directed by Walter Hill. The screenplay was written by Walter Hill, Troy Kennedy Martin, and Harry Kleiner. The cast includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle, and Ed O'Ross. Produced by TriStar Pictures and Carolco Pictures, the film is also associated with Lone Wolf and Oak Pictures. It was distributed by Netflix in video on demand format.
The narrative is set in Moscow and Chicago, featuring themes of organized crime, the Chicago Police Department, and the Cold War. Filming took place in Moscow and Budapest. The film runs for 103 or 104 minutes and was released on June 17, 1988. It has a production budget of $29,000,000 and generated box office revenue of $34,994,648.
Critics and audiences have provided mixed ratings. Review scores include 5.6/10, 69%, and 61/100. On IMDb, the film holds a rating of 6.1 based on 81,543 votes. TMDb lists a vote average of 6.2 from 1,603 votes. The film is classified as a buddy cop film, action film, and buddy film.
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6.2A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Cast
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ivan Danko
- Jim Belushi as Art Ridzik
- Peter Boyle as Lou Donnelly
- Ed O'Ross as Viktor Rostavili
- Laurence Fishburne as Lt. Stobbs
- Gina Gershon as Cat Manzetti
Themes
- drug dealer
- martial arts
- police brutality
- showdown
- street gang
- police
- cold war
- soviet union
- investigation
- revenge
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Walter Hill
- Screenplay by
- Walter Hill Harry Kleiner Troy Kennedy Martin
- Story by
- Walter Hill
- Produced by
- Walter Hill Gordon Carroll , Mario Kassar
- Starring
- Arnold Schwarzenegger Jim Belushi Peter Boyle Ed O'Ross
- Cinematography
- Matthew F. Leonetti
- Edited by
- Donn Aron Carmel Davies Freeman A. Davies
- Music by
- James Horner
- Production company
- Carolco Pictures
- Distributed by
- Tri-Star Pictures
- Release dates
- June 17, 1988 ( 1988-06-17 ) (Los Angeles & New York)
- Running time
- 103 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English, Russian
- Box office
- $34.9 million (US)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- buddy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- Russian
- Main subject
- Cold War
- Director
- Walter Hill
- Screenwriter
- Harry Kleiner
- Composer
- James Horner
- Production company
- Carolco Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Matthew F. Leonetti
- Narrative location
- Chicago
- Filming location
- Budapest
- Duration
- 103
- FilmAffinity ID
- 952405
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1988-10-06
- title
- Red Heat
- distributed by
- Netflix
- box office
- 34994648
- capital cost
- 29000000
- review score
- 61/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Red Heat is a 1988 American buddy cop action comedy thriller film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Walter Hill and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Soviet policeman Ivan Danko, and Jim Belushi as Chicago police detective Art Ridzik. The film centers on the duo who, finding themselves on the same case, work as partners to catch a cunning and deadly Georgian drug kingpin, Viktor Rostavili (Ed O'Ross), who killed Danko's previous partner. Most of the scenes set in the Soviet Union were actually shot in Hungary. Schwarzenegger was paid $8 million for his role in the film. The film is dedicated to the memory of Bennie Dobbins, who died while filming in Austria.
Plot
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Red Heat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.