Rent-A-Cop

This is an article about the movie. For the use of Rent-A-Cop as a nickname see Security guard.

Rent-a-Cop
Tagline: "There's a killer on the loose and the lady is the target"
Directed by	Jerry London
Produced by	Raymond Wagner John D. Schofield
Written by	Michael Blodgett Dennis Shryack
Starring	Burt Reynolds Liza Minnelli
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Editing by	Robert Lawrence
Distributed by	Kings Road Entertainment
Release date(s)	January 15, 1988
Running time	96 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English

Rent-a-Cop is a 1987 action / comedy / crime film starring Burt Reynolds and Liza Minnelli. Reynolds plays a disgraced police officer, now working as a security guard, who falls in love with Minnelli, who plays a prostitute.

The film helped both lead actors to be nominated for the 1988 Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Actor and Worst Actress. (These nominations were not solely on the merits of Rent-a-Cop, however; Reynolds and Minnelli were also cited for Switching Channels and Arthur 2: On the Rocks, respectively). Minnelli ended up "winning" the Worst Actress prize.

The film earned under US$300,000 in American ticket sales. IMDb lists the film as having debuted in 1987 because the movie came out in West Germany in November 1987, two months before its American premiere. Although set in Chicago, the movie was mostly filmed in Italy.

Cast

• Burt Reynolds as Tony Church
• Liza Minnelli as Della Roberts
• James Remar as Dancer
• Richard Masur as Roger
• Dionne Warwick as Beth
• Bernie Casey as Lemar
• Robby Benson as Pitts
• John P. Ryan as Wieser

External links

• Rent-a-Cop at the Internet Movie Database
• Rent-a-Cop at AllRovi