Hudson Hawk


Hudson Hawk is a 1991 American action comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann. Bruce Willis stars in the title role and also cowrote both the story and the theme song. Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, David Caruso, Lorraine Toussaint, Frank Stallone, Sandra Bernhard, and Richard E. Grant are also featured.

Eddie Hudson Hawk Hawkins Bruce WillisHudson Hawk is a nickname for the bracing winds off the Hudson Riveris a master burglar and safecracker, attempting to celebrate his first day of parole from prison with a cappuccino. Before he can get it, he is blackmailed by various entities, including his own parole officer, a minor Mafia family headed by the Mario Brothers, and the CIA into doing several dangerous art heists with his singing partner in crime, Tommy FiveTone Messina Danny Aiello.The holders of the puppet strings turn out to be a psychotic American corporation, Mayflower Industries, run by husband and wife Darwin Richard E. Grant and Minerva Mayflower Sandra Bernhard and their bladeslinging butler, Alfred Donald Burton. The company, headquartered in the Esposizione Universale Roma, seeks to take over the world by reconstructing La Macchina dellOro, a machine purportedly invented by Leonardo da Vinci Stefano Molinari that converts lead into gold. A special assembly of crystals needed for the machine to function are hidden in a variety of Leonardos artworks the maquette of the Sforza, the Da Vinci Codex, and a scale model of DaVincis helicopter design. Sister Anna Baragli Andie MacDowell is an operative for a secretive Vatican counterespionage agency, which has arranged with the CIA to assist in the Roman portion of Hawks mission, though apparently intending all along to foil the robbery at St. Peters Basilica. ........

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