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02/06/1989 Action, Crime, Thriller 1h 45m
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This time, they've brought their guns to the city.

Overview

While investigating police corruption in his department, undercover cop Buster McHenry is forced to participate in a heist, leading to innocent casualties and the theft of an ancient Lakota tribal spear. After McHenry ends up severely wounded, he is taken in by Native American Hank Storm, who is out to recover the spear and avenge the death of a loved one in the heist.

  1. Jack Sholder

    Director

  2. David Rich

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Kiefer Sutherland

    Buster McHenry

  2. Lou Diamond Phillips

    Hank Storm

  3. Jami Gertz

    Barbara

  4. Robert Knepper

    Marino

  5. Bill Smitrovich

    Finch

  6. Peter MacNeill

    Denny Ransom

  7. Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

    Red Crow

  8. Joseph Griffin

    Matt

  9. John Di Benedetto

    Corso

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2014-09-26
They trusted no one. Until they had to trust each other.

It suffers from the pitfalls of many other 1980s action films, such as plot holes, silly twists and predictability of formula, but there is a very good action film here that's more than a time waster for the so inclined.

Young Guns (1988) stars Sutherland and Phillips (by now firm real life friends) team up again, this time in Phioladelphia with Sutherland as a maverick copper working undercover and Phillips as a Lakota Indian. The two of them are thrown together by fate when a case Sutherland is working on goes bad and Phillips' b...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$16,000,000.00

Revenue
$9,015,164.00

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