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The Last Boy Scout is a 1991 action movie starring Bruce Willis as a former Secret Service agent — now working as a private detective — and Damon Wayans as a retired professional football player, who join forces to prevent a corrupt United States Senator from being assassinated. The movie was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Geffen Pictures, and directed by Tony Scott.
Its grim, downbeat tone and punishing violence proved to be a little much for holiday moviegoers at the time of its release in December 1991. It was, however, a modest commercial success, particularly in comparison to star Bruce Willis' previous vehicle, Hudson Hawk.
At the time of its release, The Last Boy Scout joined a select club of films vying for the unofficial record for most number of times the word "fuck" has been used in a film intended for mainstream distribution. The word, either outright or in participle form, was uttered 102 times. The movie was rated R (restricted) by the Motion Picture Association of America and O ("morally offensive") by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office for Film and Broadcasting, no doubt due in large part to the unprecedented level of verbal vulgarity (although the film also contains considerable sexual and violent content). Amazingly, this record has been exceeded on multiple occasions since; indeed, the 1997 release Nil By Mouth fits 470 examples of this vulgarity into its 128 minutes.
Plot (spoilers)
Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbach, a private detective who discovers that his wife is sleeping with his best friend and sometime business partner, Mike (Bruce McGill). The same morning, Mike is killed in a mysterious car explosion after giving Joe an assignment to act as bodyguard for a stripper named Cory (Halle Berry). Joe immediately crosses paths with Cory's over-protective boyfriend, recently retired football star James Alexander "Jimmy" Dix (Damon Wayans). When thugs attack Joe and kill Cory in front of Jimmy Dix's eyes, Jimmy and Joe team up to solve her murder.
The investigation turns out to tie together the professional pasts of both Jimmy and Joe. Jimmy, it turns out, had to retire from professional football after a sports injury led to an addiction to pain-killers, which in turn led to a possibly bogus gambling charge that ended his career. Joe, meanwhile, used to be a respected agent in the Secret Service and even once saved President Jimmy Carter's life, before his career was ended when he punched a protectee in the face, upon discovering that the corrupt Senator Calvin Baynard was physically abusing one of his one-night stands.
Jimmy and Joe soon discover that Cory had proof that Sen. Baynard is part of a conspiracy to legalize sports gambling, but that the other conspirators have decided to assassinate the senator rather than continue to bribe him. Much of the film follows Jimmy and Joe's attempts to prevent the assassination.
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1991 films | Thriller films | Action films | Buddy films | Cult films | Films directed by Tony Scott | Warner Bros. films
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"The Last Boy Scout"