Hudson Hawk
Original Hudson Hawk DVD Release.
Directed by	Michael Lehmann
Produced by	Michael Dryhurst, Robert Kraft, Joel Silver
Written by	Bruce Willis & Robert Kraft (story) Steven E. de Souza & Daniel Waters (screenplay)
Starring	Bruce Willis Danny Aiello Andie MacDowell James Coburn
Music by	Michael Kamen
Cinematography	Dante Spinotti
Editing by	Chris Lebenzon Michael Tronick
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures TriStar Pictures
Released	May 24, 1991 (USA)
Running time	100 min.
Language	English
Budget	$6.5 million
IMDb profile

Hudson Hawk is a 1991 film, directed by Michael Lehmann. Bruce Willis stars in the title role and also co-wrote the story. Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, David Caruso, Lorraine Toussaint, Frank Stallone, Richard E. Grant, and Sandra Bernhard are also featured. Image File history File links Hudson_Hawk_DVD.jpg Licensing This image is of a DVD cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the DVD or the studio which produced the DVD in question. ... Michael Lehmann (Born March 30, 1957) is an American film and television director. ... Robert K. Kraft, also known as Bob Kraft (born 1942) is the owner of National Football Leagues New England Patriots and Major League Soccers New England Revolution, as well as the stadium where they play, Gillette Stadium. ... Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is a successful Jewish-American Hollywood film producer. ... Bruce Willis in Virginia Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and musician. ... Robert K. Kraft, also known as Bob Kraft (born 1942) is the owner of National Football Leagues New England Patriots and Major League Soccers New England Revolution, as well as the stadium where they play, Gillette Stadium. ... Steven de Souza is among the handful of screenwriters whose films have earned over two billion dollars at the box office. ... Daniel Waters was an officer in the Continental Navy and in the United States Navy. ... Bruce Willis in Virginia Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and musician. ... Danny Aiello Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr. ... Andie MacDowell Rosalie Anderson Andie MacDowell (born April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina) is an American actress and former model. ... James Coburn in Sam Peckinpahs Cross of Iron (1977). ... Michael Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician. ... Born in Tolmezzo, Italy on August 22nd, 1943, Dante Spinotti is a well respected cinematographer. ... Columbia Pictures current logo. ... The TriStar Pegasus logo, used since 1993. ... May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Michael Lehmann (Born March 30, 1957) is an American film and television director. ... Bruce Willis in Virginia Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and musician. ... Danny Aiello Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr. ... Andie MacDowell Rosalie Anderson Andie MacDowell (born April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina) is an American actress and former model. ... James Coburn in Sam Peckinpahs Cross of Iron (1977). ... David Caruso David Caruso (born January 7, 1956) is an American actor. ... Lorraine Toussaint (born April 4, 1960 in Trinidad, West Indies) is a television actress best known for playing assistant medical examiner Elaine Duchamps on the television drama Crossing Jordan. ... Frank Stallone, Jr. ... Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen on May 5, 1957) is a British actor, born in Mbabane, Swaziland, and educated in Waterford Kamhlaba School. ... Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955 in suburban Flint, Michigan, but raised in Arizona) is a United States actor, entertainer, and comedian. ...

The live action film makes heavy use of cartoon-style slapstick, including sound effects, which enhances the movie's signature surreal humour. The plot combines material based on conspiracy theories, secret societies, and historic mysteries, as well as outlandish technology à la Coburn's Our Man Flint movies of the 1960s. In film and video, live action refers to works that are acted out by flesh-and-blood actors, as opposed to animation. ... An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) moving picture for the cinema, TV or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very short one). ... Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated physical violence. ... Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of movies, video games, music, or other media. ... Surreal humour is a form of humour based on bizarre juxtapositions, absurd situations, and nonsense logic. ... This proposed logo for the US Information Awareness Office was dropped due to fears that its Masonic symbolism would provoke conspiracy theories. ... A secret society is a social organization that requires its members to conceal certain activities—such as rites of initiation or club ceremonies—from outsiders. ... Our Man Flint was a 1966 sci-fi action film which starred James Coburn. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...

A recurring plot device in the film has Hudson and his partner Tommy "Five-Tone" (Aiello) singing songs concurrently but separately, to time and synchronize their exploits. Willis-Aiello duets of Bing Crosby's Swinging on a Star and Paul Anka's Side by Side feature on the movie's soundtrack. Harry Lillis Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903? – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. ... Although the song Swinging on a Star is often associated with Frank Sinatra, its start came with Bing Crosby. ... Paul Anka receiving the Order of Canada from Governor General Adrienne Clarkson in a ceremony performed at Rideau Hall on Friday, June 10, 2005. ... Side by Side is a popular song by Harry Woods, written in 1927, now considered a standard. ...

Despite a star-studded cast, the film generally received negative critical reviews and was overall a box office bomb. It received Razzie Awards for Worst Director, Worst Screenplay and Worst Picture. In his autobiography, With Nails, Richard E. Grant diarizes the production of the film in detail, noting the ad-hoc nature of the production and extensive rewriting and replotting during the actual filming. Since its release, it has built up a small but loyal fanbase who have held it to be an original and daring project by Willis that did not receive its due. Others have seen it as classic bad cinema, roasting it much like Plan 9 from Outer Space. Willis went on to become one of the leading box-office stars of the 1990s, but has not made any further forays into scriptwriting. This is a list of movies for which the revenue retained by the movie studio didnt cover production and marketing costs. ... The 12th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 29, 1992 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognise the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1991. ... Plan 9 From Outer Space is a 1959 science fiction/horror film written, produced and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ...

The story begins with Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins (Willis), a master burglar and safe-cracker attempting to celebrate his first day of parole from prison with a cappuccino. Before he can get it, he is blackmailed by various entities, including his own parole officer, a minor Newark Mafia family (headed by Stallone), and the CIA (Coburn along with Caruso and Toussaint and others), into doing several dangerous art heists. Throughout the movie, Hudson attempts to enjoy a cappuccino, but is foiled each time. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Parole can have different meanings depending on the context. ... A typical cappuccino with foam. ... Blackmail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Skyline of downtown Newark as seen from the Newark Bay Bridge. ... The Mafia, also referred to in Italian as Cosa Nostra (which translates as Our Thing), is an organized criminal secret society which evolved in mid-19th century Sicily. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ...

The holders of the various players' puppet strings turn out to be a "psychotic American corporation", Mayflower Industries, run by a husband-and-wife team (Grant and Bernhard) and their blade-slinging butler. The company is seeking to take over the world by reconstructing "La Macchina dell'Oro", a machine purportedly invented by Leonardo da Vinci which converts lead into gold. A special assembly of crystals needed for the machine to function are hidden in a variety of Leonardo's artworks: the Sforza, the Codex, and a scale model of DaVinci's helicopter design. Leonardo da Vinci ( Vinci, Italy, April 15, 1452 — May 2, 1519, Cloux, Amboise, France [1]) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: an architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, musician, and painter. ... For other uses, see Alchemy (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that crystallization processes be merged into this article or section. ...

Sister Anna Baragli (MacDowell), initially his tail and later his refuge (and love interest), is an operative for a secretive and unnamed Vatican counter-espionage agency, which makes an unexplained arrangement with the CIA to assist in the Roman portion of Hudson's mission, though apparently intending all along to use the connection to foil the robbery at St. Peter's. Counter-intelligence ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... Interior view, with the nave of the Basilica in the back St. ...

The movie culminates in a spectacular showdown at Leonardo's castle, between the remaining CIA agents, the Mayflowers, and the team of Hudson, Five-Tone, and Baragli, to stop the Mayflowers from successfully operating the machine. The main gatehouse of Harlech Castle, Wales. ...

Cast

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Trivia

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Soundtrack Listing

Music composed and conducted by Michael Kamen for the film. Released by Varese Sarabande in 1991, there are eleven tracks in all. Music is sound expressed in the structures of tones and silence. ... A musical composition is a piece of original music designed for repeated performance (as opposed to strictly improvisational music, in which each performance is unique). ... Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... Michael Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician. ... Varèse Sarabande is a record label, which specialises in soundtrack record releases, and reissues of hard-to-find (sometimes long- or previously-unavailable) albums, and singles collections. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

1. Hudson Hawk Theme - Dr. John (05:38)
2. Swinging On A Star - Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello (02:53)
3. Side By Side - Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello (02:18)
4. Leonardo (04:55)
5. Welcome to Rome (01:46)
6. Stealing the Codex (01:58)
7. Igg and Ook (02:22)
8. Cartoon Fight (02:54)
9. The Gold Room (05:57)
10. Hawk Swing (03:41)
11. Hudson Hawk Theme (Instrumental) (05:18)

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External links

• Hudson Hawk at The Internet Movie Database
• Hudson Hawk review at the Agony Booth