Taglines: A comedy with personality… Lots of them.
Loose Cannons movie storyline. Mac, the two fisted savy cop finds that he’s being saddled with a new partner, a known burn out, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is, Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning fast deductions. Ellis has a couple of problems. He keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.
Loose Cannons is a 1990 comedy film, written by Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson and Bob Clark, who also directed the film. The film is about a hard-nosed cop who is teamed up with a detective with multiple-personality disorder to uncover a long-lost Nazi sex tape, featuring Adolf Hitler, which would jeopardize the political future of the German chancellor-elect.
The film stars Dan Aykroyd, Gene Hackman, and Dom DeLuise. The theme song features vocals by Katey Sagal and Aykroyd. The film was released by TriStar Pictures on February 9, 1990 and, upon its release, was a critical and financial disaster, bringing in only $5.5 million worldwide on a $15 million budget.
Loose Cannons (1990)
Directed by: Bob Clark
Starring: Gene Hackman, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise, Ronny Cox, Nancy Travis, Robert Prosky, Paul Koslo, Dick O’Neill, Jan Tríska, Robert Irvin Elliott, S. Epatha Merkerson
Screenplay by: Richard Christian Matheson, Richard Matheson
Production Design by: Harry Pottle
Cinematography by: Reginald H. Morris
Film Editing by: Stan Cole
Costume Design by: Clifford Capone
Set Decoration by: Denise Exshaw
Art Direction by: William J. Durrell Jr.
Music by: Paul Zaza
Distributed by: TriStar Pictures
Release Date: February 9, 1990
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