Showtime (film)

Showtime is a 2002 action comedy film directed by Tom Dey and starring Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy.

Trey enters the picture shortly after, as an LAPD officer who actually wants to be an actor while also trying to become a detective. He pays a friend to snatch the purse of the shows producer, Chase Renzi Rene Russo, and then retrieves it after a staged fight scene. Even though the deception is embarrassingly revealed, Chase is impressed and signs Trey on anyway. It is quickly revealed that the shows producers have little interest in filming an actual police officers existence they build a minimovie set in the middle of the station, and replace Mitchs nondescript personal car with a Humvee. They also hire William Shatner who once played T. J. Hooker to give both men tips on how to act. Trey is eager to learn, Mitch is merely annoyed.Despite all this, Mitch tries to investigate the mysterious supergun, which is subsequently used by arms dealer Caesar Vargas to kill the drug dealer and his girlfriend. Through a clever ruse by Trey, they are able to get the arms dealers name from the dead dealers henchman. However, Vargas is less than cooperative, which causes a brawl at his nightclub. Trey and Mitch are able to defeat him and his henchmen, and subsequently have a relatively friendly conversation on their way home. Mitchs good humor evaporates when he finds that, in his absence, the Showtime producers have drastically remodeled his house and given him a retired K9 dog as a pet. ........

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