Turner & Hooch

Turner amp Hooch is a 1989 American comedythriller film starring Tom Hanks and Beasley the Dog as the eponymous characters, Turner and Hooch respectively. The film also costars Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson and Reginald VelJohnson. It was directed by Roger Spottiswoode the film was originally slated to be directed by Henry Winkler, but he was terminated because of his creative differences. It was cowritten by Michael Blodgett of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls fame.

Scott Turner Tom Hanks is an obsessively neat police investigator who is bored with his minor police work in the fictional town of Cypress Beach in Northern California and is set to transfer to a better job in Sacramento, while fellow investigator David Sutton Reginald VelJohnson is to be his replacement. As Scott shows David around, we meet local junkyard owner Amos Reed John McIntire, who is Scotts friend and owner of Hooch Beasley the Dog, a large and slobbery Dogue de Bordeaux.After a thug kills Amos, Scott pleads with police chief Howard Hyde Craig T. Nelson to let him take on Amoss murder case. Believing that Hooch is the only witness he has, Scott brings him home. The energetic dog promptly tears the investigators house apart, chews up his car, and turns his life upside down. On a positive note, however, Hooch also instigates a romance between Scott and the new town veterinarian Emily Carson Mare Winningham Hooch also starts his own romance with the vets dog, Camille. ........

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