Turner & Hooch
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| Turner & Hooch | |
 The movie poster for Turner & Hooch. |
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| Directed by | Roger Spottiswoode |
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| Produced by | Raymond Wagner |
| Written by | Dennis Shryack Michael Blodgett Daniel Petrie Jr. Jim Cash Jack Epps Jr. |
| Starring | Tom Hanks Mare Winningham Craig T. Nelson Reginald VelJohnson J.C. Quinn |
| Music by | Charles Gross |
| Cinematography | Adam Greenberg |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 28, 1989 |
| Running time | 97 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Turner & Hooch is a 1989 comedy film starring Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, and Reginald VelJohnson. It was directed by Roger Spottiswoode; the movie was originally slated to be directed by Henry Winkler, but he was terminated due to "creative differences". It was co-written by Michael Blodgett from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls fame.
A pilot for a Turner & Hooch TV series was made and ran as a part of Disneyland. Although K9 (with Jim Belushi) was released prior to this film (four months earlier), Turner & Hooch became more popular and seemingly over-shadowed its success, even though it had a very similar storyline/plot.
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[edit] Plot
Tom Hanks plays Scott Turner, an obsessively neat police investigator, who acquires Hooch (Beasley the Dog), a large and slobbery Dogue de Bordeaux, after the murder of Amos Reed (John McIntire), a local junk yard owner he was friends with. Turner, bored with little police work in Cypress Beach, California, is set to transfer to a better job in Sacramento, and fellow investigator David Sutton (Reginald VelJohnson) is to be his replacement. However, Turner pleads with police chief Howard Hyde (Craig T. Nelson) to let him take on Amos' murder case. Believing that Hooch is the only witness he has to the murder, Turner brings him home. The energetic dog promptly destroys Turner's house, his car, and turns his life upside-down. On a positive note, however, Hooch also instigates a romance between Turner and the new town veterinarian Emily Carson (Mare Winningham).
Eventually Turner, with the help of Hooch, uncovers a money laundering operation led by Chief Hyde, and Hooch gives his life to save his master. Hyde and his partner are also killed. In the end, Turner becomes Police Chief, and David does indeed take Turner's former position. On the home front, Turner and Emily are married and expecting a child. In addition, Emily's collie Camille has given birth to half a dozen puppies, including one that looks and behaves uncannily similar to Hooch
[edit] Cast
- Tom Hanks as Det. Scott Turner
- Mare Winningham as Dr. Emily Carson
- Craig T. Nelson as Chief Howard Hyde
- Reginald VelJohnson as Det. David Sutton (as Reginald Veljohnson)
- Scott Paulin as Zack Gregory
- J.C. Quinn as Walter Boyett
- John McIntire as Amos Reed
- David Knell as Ernie
- Ebbe Roe Smith as Harley McCabe
- Kevin Scannell as Jeff Foster
- Joel Bailey as Ferraday
- Mary McCusker as Katie
- Ernie Lively as Motel Clerk
- Clyde Kusatsu as Kevin Williams
- Elaine Renee Bush as Store Clerk
[edit] Reception and legacy
Although the film received mixed reviews,[1] it was a box office success.[2] No plans remain for a sequel despite its revived popularity following Hanks' rise to success.
Turner & Hooch has been referred to in various movies and television shows, including the NBC medical sitcom Scrubs, in which main characters J.D. and Turk modify shift schedules so that Doctors Turner and Hooch are teamed up as a surgical team in the episode "My Faith in Humanity" (Doctor Turner was played by Jim Hanks, Tom Hanks' brother). They actually make a good team, and are disappointed when they have to disband. Another episode has Turk offended at JD's assumption that Turner and Hooch was an interracial buddy movie, an assumption made based on the aforementioned Hooch.
NBC did a television pilot based on the film in 1990. It aired in the summer with another dog pilot, "Poochinski" under the banner, "Two Dog Night."
During an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Conan gave Tom Hanks a preserved dog skeleton, claiming it was his old friend Hooch. As one of Conan's first guests on The Tonight Show, Hanks improvised a song from an alleged Turner & Hooch stage musical.
During the 2006 Academy Awards, Tom Hanks played in a sketch about acceptance speeches that ran on too long. In his comedic lengthy speech, he thanked Hooch.
Animal Makers created an exact replica of Hooch for the famous death scene.
Hooch's real name was Beasley, and he was a rare Dogue de Bordeaux, a French breed of dog developed for pit fighting in the 15th century. Beasley was owned and trained by Clint Rowe, who makes a brief appearance in the film as an ASPCA officer. Beasley died in 1992.
[edit] References
- ^ "Turner & Hooch (1989)". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/turner_and_hooch. Retrieved on 2007-01-25.
- ^ "Business data for Turner & Hooch". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098536/business. Retrieved on 2007-01-25.
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| Preceded by Lethal Weapon 2 |
Box office number-one films of 1989 (USA) July 30, 1989 |
Succeeded by Parenthood |
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