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L.A. Heat | |
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Directed by | Joseph Merhi |
Written by | Charles T. Kanganis Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs |
Produced by | Joseph Merhi Richard Pepin |
Starring | Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Jim Brown |
Cinematography | Richard Pepin |
Edited by | Paul G. Volk |
Music by | John Gonzalez |
Production company | |
Distributed by | PM Video |
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Running time | 1hr 25min |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $135,000 (estimated) |
L.A. Heat is a 1989 police film directed by Joseph Merhi and starring Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Jim Brown. The film follows Detective Jon Chance, a Los Angeles detective who dreams of being a cowboy hero and living by "the code of the West," as he is assigned to track down a violent drug dealer. [1]
Jon Chance, an L.A. vice cop who is a man who dreamed of being a cowboy hero. He saw himself as an exemplary hero who always felt that the use of guns was not a necessity. However, Chance needs to stop dreaming. He needed to return to the real world! Jon Chance gets an assignment which he can't say no to and has to accept, to bust a drug dealer named Clarence. The case later gets personal when Carl, Chance's partner get killed by Clarence during a routine drug bust. A drug war will soon ensue between Clarence, who is trying to retrieve his drugs and money, and the police...
TV Guide gave the film two stars out of four, calling it "A reasonably entertaining low-budget crime thriller". [2] Variety called the film "an okay made-for-video feature", praising Jacobs' "ernest performance" but describing the sound recording as "a bit rough and ready". [3]
The film was a success on home video and was followed by three sequels, Angels of the City (1989), L.A. Vice (1989), and Chance (1990), in which Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs reprises his role as Detective Jon Chance.
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