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Rush Hour
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Rush Hour is a 1998 American action, buddy cop, and martial arts film directed by Brett Ratner. The screenplay was written by Jim Kouf, with music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The cast includes Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Ken Leung, and Tom Wilkinson. Produced by Roger Birnbaum and Jonathan Glickman, the film was distributed by New Line Cinema, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video. It is part of the Rush Hour series and features the Los Angeles Police Department as its main subject.
Set in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, the movie has a runtime of 98 minutes and was released in English and Cantonese. The production budget was $33,000,000, and the film earned $245,253,686 at the box office. It received a PG-13 rating and has a Metascore of 61. Audience scores include a 7.0 IMDb rating and a 62% Rotten Tomatoes score. The film has received 6 wins and 9 nominations.
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Film · TMDB
7.1When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Cast
- Jackie Chan as Lee
- Chris Tucker as Carter
- Tom Wilkinson as Griffin
- Philip Baker Hall as Captain Diel
- Elizabeth Peña as Johnson
- Chris Penn as Clive
Themes
- martial arts
- fbi
- two man army
- chinese mafia
- cop
- los angeles, california
- east asian lead
- buddy cop
- consul
- crime lord
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Ratings
IMDb
7/10
325,702 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
62%
Metacritic
61/100
- Year
- 1998
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 6 wins & 9 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Brett Ratner
- Screenplay by
- Jim Kouf Ross LaManna
- Story by
- Ross LaManna
- Produced by
- Roger Birnbaum Jonathan Glickman Arthur M. Sarkissian
- Starring
- Jackie Chan Chris Tucker Tom Wilkinson Chris Penn Elizabeth Peña
- Cinematography
- Adam Greenberg
- Edited by
- Mark Helfrich
- Music by
- Lalo Schifrin
- Production company
- Roger Birnbaum Productions
- Distributed by
- New Line Cinema
- Release date
- September 18, 1998 ( 1998-09-18 )
- Running time
- 97 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English Cantonese
- Budget
- $33–35 million
- Box office
- $245.3 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Rush Hour is a 1998 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Brett Ratner from a screenplay by Jim Kouf and Ross LaManna and a story by LaManna. It stars Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Chris Penn, and Elizabeth Peña. In the film, Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) Chief Inspector Lee (Chan) and Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Detective James Carter (Tucker) are forced to work together to rescue a Chinese diplomat's abducted daughter.
Development on Rush Hour began in 1995, after LaManna wrote a spec script, which was first initially sold to Hollywood Pictures with Ratner and Chan both attached to the project. The film was eventually shelved until being acquired by New Line Cinema, who had an established relationship with Ratner and Tucker following Money Talks (1997). Several actors were considered prior to Tucker signing onto the project, with the rest of the cast rounded out by early 1997. Principal photography began that November and lasted until January 1998, with filming locations including California, Los Angeles and Hong Kong.
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