Details

Release year: 2012

Storyline

Shot documentary-style, this film follows the daily grind of two young police officers in LA who are partners and close friends.

Top credits

Directors

David Ayer

Writers

David Ayer

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal — Brian Taylor
Michael Peña — Mike Zavala
Anna Kendrick — Janet
America Ferrera — Orozco

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Did you know

• As part of their training, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña spent five months doing 12-hour ride-alongs with on-duty LAPD officers. During Gyllenhaal's first ride-along, he witnessed a murder.

• Most of the crude banter between Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña was improvised by the two.

• The scene near the end of the movie where Mike and Brian are in pursuit of a silver minivan and then crash into it: the crash was not scripted. Michael Peña, who was driving the patrol car at that moment, actually crashed into the back of the minivan by accident.The director had had the anti-lock brakes removed from the patrol car because they would cause the camera to shake. Also, the actors didn't know that the road on which they were filming the scene had recently been repaved. So when Michael Peña hit the brakes, the patrol car skidded across the road for about a 150 feet right into the back of the minivan deploying the airbags.