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L.A. Heat (film)
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Wikipedia article
: 'For the spin-off television show' L.A. Heat, 'see L.A. Heat (TV series).'
'L.A. Heat' is a 1989 police film directed by Joseph Merhi and starring Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Jim Brown. The film follows Detective Jon Chance, a Los Angeles detective who dreams of being a cowboy hero and living by "the code of the West," as he is assigned to track down a violent drug dealer.
Plot Summary
Jon Chance, an L.A. vice cop who is a man who dreamed of being a cowboy hero. He saw himself as an exemplary hero who always felt that the use of guns was not a necessity. However, Chance needs to stop dreaming. He needed to return to the real world! Jon Chance gets an assignment which he can't say no to and has to accept, to bust a drug dealer named Clarence. The case later gets personal when Carl, Chance's partner get killed by Clarence during a routine drug bust. A drug war will soon ensue between Clarence, who is trying to retrieve his drugs and money, and the police...
Cast
* Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as Jon Chance
* Jim Brown as Captain
* Kevin Benton as Clarence
* Myles Thoroughgood as Spyder
* Trish Johnson as Jane
* John Henry Richardson as Boris
* Robert Gallo as Sylvio
Reception
TV Guide gave the film two stars out of four, calling it "A reasonably entertaining low-budget crime thriller".
Legacy
The film was a success on home video and was followed by three sequels, 'Angels of the City' (1989), 'L.A. Vice' (1989), and 'Chance' (1990), in which Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs reprises his role as Detective Jon Chance.
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