Details

Release year: 1997

Storyline

Sought by police and criminals, a small-time hustler makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.

Top credits

Directors

Brett Ratner

Writers

Cast

Charlie Sheen — James Russell
Chris Tucker — Franklin Hatchett
Heather Locklear — Grace Cipriani
Larry Hankin — Roland

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Did you know

• The jail scene with Faizon Love listening to Chris Tucker explain his arrest, was not originally scripted. Love visited Tucker on set during the filming of that scene. The director expressed his uncertainty for the written scene, which had another man chasing Tucker around the cell. The director proposed that Love and Tucker do the scene. The two came up with dialog and movements, moments before filming. It took 89 takes to finalize that scene due to uncontrolled laughter from the actors and the director.

• Chris Tucker wears a Styrofoam hair piece for the entirety of the film.

• This film essentially marks the last in which Chris Tucker plays a character who cusses excessively due to Tucker becoming a born-again Christian in the late 90s.