Showtime is a 2002 comedy film directed by Tom Dey and starring Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy.
The film centers on two cops, Det. Mitch Preston (Robert De Niro) and Officer Trey Sellars (Eddie Murphy), who are paired together for a reality police show and run into real trouble with a crime lord. The beginning of the story closely parallels that of the 1988 film The Dead Pool, in which Harry Callahan intentionally breaks a news camera and is sub...
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Showtime is a 2002 comedy film directed by Tom Dey and starring Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy.
The film centers on two cops, Det. Mitch Preston (Robert De Niro) and Officer Trey Sellars (Eddie Murphy), who are paired together for a reality police show and run into real trouble with a crime lord. The beginning of the story closely parallels that of the 1988 film The Dead Pool, in which Harry Callahan intentionally breaks a news camera and is subject to favors for the news channel as a result. In this film, Detective Mitch Preston breaks a news camera after a failed confrontation with a drug lord, who escapes by using an extremely destructive custom-built gun. Maxis Television, the network which employed the cameraman, decides to sue the police department for ten million dollars. The lawsuit will be dropped if Mitch agrees to star in a reality cop television show which Trey later calls Showtime!.
Trey enters the picture shortly after, as an LAPD officer who actually wants to be an...
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