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16 Blocks |
| Cast |
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Bruce
Willis, Dante Smith, David Morse,
Jenna Stern, Tig Fong, Cylk Cozart,
Brenda Pressley |
| Producer |
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Avi Lerner, Arnold Rifkin |
| Director |
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Richard Donner |
| Genre |
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Drama |
| Duration |
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105 mins |
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| All he wanted to do was go home
and get a drink. But at 8:02 a.m., hungover NYPD
detective Jack Mosley is assigned a seemingly simple
task. Petty criminal Eddie Bunker is set to testify
before a grand jury at 10:00 a.m. and needs to be
taken from lock-up to the courthouse, 16 blocks
away. Broken down, out of shape, with a bad leg
and a serious drinking problem, Jack’s role
on the force is simple clock in, clock out and stay
out of trouble in between. He’s in no mood
to deal with a punk who’s been in and out
of jail for more than half his life. But beneath
the punk in Eddie lies a man committed to turning
his life around and constantly searching for “signs”
that will lead him to a brighter future. In Eddie
Jack sees only a pathetic rat who was offered a
sweet deal. When Jack shoves Eddie into the back
of his car and pulls out into the morning New York
city rush hour, he doesn’t notice the van
looming behind them. His head throbbing, and Eddie’s
flair for conversation only making it worse, Jack
stops off at the local liquor store to pick up some
breakfast. As Eddie waits inside the locked car,
fuming at getting stuck with Jack as his escort,
he’s suddenly faced with a much bigger problem
a loaded gun pointed at his head. Jack emerges just
in time to prevent Eddie’s execution, killing
one assassin and narrowly escaping a second. When
Jack calls for backup, homicide detective Frank
Nugent and his team are first to arrive at the scene.
Eddie suddenly goes pale one of the detectives on
Nugent’s team is the man he is supposed to
testify against. In an instant, Jack’s quickie
trip downtown turns into the nightmare of a lifetime:
the criminals that want Eddie dead are actually
cops. There’s a history between Jack and Nugent
a dark history that Jack has been desperately trying
to forget. And as Nugent is quick to point out to
his old friend, Eddie’s testimony threatens
to bring them all down. Nugent offers to stage a
mock hostage situation in which Eddie is killed
and Jack does what he does best walk away. But this
time, Jack has been pushed too far and seizes his
last opportunity to do the right thing. A split
second before Nugent’s team can execute Eddie,
Jack sets in motion a chain of events that will
irrevocably impact all of their lives. Battling
against time and the corrupt cops gaining on their
every move, Jack and Eddie fight their way to the
courthouse block by gut-wrenching block. |
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