Hollywood Homicide. Half cop drama, half Bull Durham-esque adult comedy, this wonderfully agreeable Ron Shelton-Harrison Ford-Josh Hartnett film was so hard to pigeonhole that it slipped between the commercial cracks when it was released in 2003, even though two prominent critics praised it. They were right. Ford is at his best as a middle-aged detective lost at sea in the everything-goes culture of postmodern Los Angeles, and the supporting cast (Keith David, Martin Landau, Lena Olin) is solid from top to bottom (TT).
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