The Last Boy Scout
The Last Boy Scout promotional movie poster
Directed by	Tony Scott
Produced by	Michael Levy Joel Silver
Written by	Story: Shane Black Greg Hicks Screenplay: Shane Black
Starring	Bruce Willis Damon Wayans Chelsea Field Noble Willingham Taylor Negron Danielle Harris Halle Berry
Music by	Michael Kamen
Cinematography	Ward Russell
Editing by	Stuart Baird Mark Goldblatt
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	December 13, 1991
Running time	105 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	Unknown
Gross revenue	$59,509,925 (USA)
IMDb profile

The Last Boy Scout is a 1991 action movie starring Bruce Willis as a former Secret Service agent—now working as a private detective—and Damon Wayans as a retired professional football player, who join forces to solve the murder of the football player’s girlfriend. The movie was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Geffen Pictures, and directed by Tony Scott. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 400 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (504 × 755 pixel, file size: 76 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. ... See also Tony Scott for the American clarinet jazz musician. ... Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is a successful Hollywood film producer. ... Shane Black (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor, screenwriter and film director. ... Shane Black (born December 16, 1961) is an American actor, screenwriter and film director. ... Convenience store window poster featuring Willis, Prague, Czech Republic (2002) Bruce Willis (born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19, 1955) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning American actor and singer. ... Damon Wayans (born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor who began his career as a stand-up comic in 1982. ... Chelsea Field is an actor, perhaps best remembered as Teela from the 1987 film adaptation of Masters of the Universe. ... Noble Willingham (August 31, 1931, in Mineola, Texas — January 17, 2004, in Palm Springs, California) was an American television and film actor. ... Taylor Negron (born Brad Taylor Negron August 1, 1958 in Glendale, California) is an American character actor who appeared frequently in comedies of the 1980s and on television. ... Danielle Harris (born June 1, 1977) is an American television and film actress. ... Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966[1]) is an award-winning American actress. ... 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. ... Stuart Baird is a British film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with action films. ... The father of Max Goldblatt, Mark Goldblatt is an ACE (American Cinema Editor), and has edited well over thirty films, which include The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), and Pearl Harbor (2001). ... Warner Bros. ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Convenience store window poster featuring Willis, Prague, Czech Republic (2002) Bruce Willis (born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19, 1955) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning American actor and singer. ... Because of both the secrecy of secret services and the controversial nature of the issues involved, there is some difficulty in separating the definitions of secret service, secret police, intelligence agency etc. ... Damon Wayans (born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor who began his career as a stand-up comic in 1982. ... Warner Bros. ... See also Tony Scott for the American clarinet jazz musician. ...

Its grim, downbeat tone and punishing violence proved to be a little much for holiday moviegoers at the time of its release in December 1991.^{[citation needed]} It was, however, a modest commercial success, particularly in comparison to star Bruce Willis’ previous vehicle, Hudson Hawk. Hudson Hawk is a 1991 film, directed by Michael Lehmann. ...

Plot

Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbeck, a private detective and retired U.S. Secret Service agent who discovers that his wife is having an affair with his best friend and sometime business partner, Mike (Bruce McGill). The same morning, Mike is killed in a mysterious car explosion after giving Joe an assignment to act as bodyguard for a stripper named Cory (Halle Berry). Joe immediately crosses paths with Cory’s over-protective boyfriend, recently retired football star James Alexander “Jimmy” Dix (Damon Wayans). When thugs attack Joe and kill Cory in front of Jimmy Dix’s eyes, Jimmy and Joe team up to solve her murder. Bruce McGill Bruce Travis McGill was born on July 11, 1950 in San Antonio, Texas. ... Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966[1]) is an award-winning American actress. ...

The investigation turns out to tie together the professional pasts of both Jimmy and Joe. Jimmy, it turns out, had to retire from professional football after a sports injury led to an addiction to pain-killers, which in turn led to a possibly bogus gambling charge that ended his career. Joe, meanwhile, used to be a respected agent in the Secret Service and even once saved President Jimmy Carter’s life, before his career was ended when he punched a protectee in the face, upon discovering that the corrupt Senator Calvin Baynard was physically abusing one of his one-night stands. James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ...

Jimmy and Joe soon discover that Cory had proof that Sen. Baynard (Chelcie Ross) is part of a conspiracy to legalize sports gambling, but that the other conspirators have decided to assassinate the senator rather than continue to bribe him. Much of the film follows Jimmy and Joe’s attempts to prevent the assassination. Chelcie Ross (born on 26 October 1942 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA) is an American character actor. ...

Trivia

• Shane Black became the first writer to sell a script for $1 million.
• The movie that Joe’s daughter Darian is watching on TV is Lethal Weapon, which was also written by Shane Black.
• In the original script, the entire third act was set on water. Hallenbeck’s grudge with senator Baynard was completely different from the movie. Hallenbeck was working security for the Baynard family when Louis Baynard, President Baynard’s son, kills a mother and her child in a drunken car accident. When Hallenbeck refuses to cover for the president’s son, they plant half a kilo of crack cocaine in his house. Louis Baynard was also a villain in the script, and in the end both he and his father dies.
• Quentin Tarantino has declared himself a fan of The Last Boy Scout.
• Bill Medley sings “Friday Night Is a Great Night for Football” on the opening and closing credits.
• This was Eddie Griffin’s first ever appearance in a film
• Billy Cole, the football player who commits suicide in the film's opening game, is played by Tae-Bo guru Billy Blanks.
• Composer Michael Kamen hated the film when he first saw it. He only scored the film out of his personal friendships to Bruce Willis and Joel Silver.
• The movie's title character, "The Last Boy Scout", is revealed to be Joe Hallebeck (Bruce Willis) when Jimmy Dix (Damon Wayans) signs Hallenbeck's daughter's football card, "To the Daughter of The Last Boy Scout"
• The cat-puppet that Darian speaks through (and ultimately saves Hallenbeck's life) is named "Furry Tom."

Sandra Bullock was original slated to play Gary Buseys role as the main villian, but due to her contract she was unable to. ... Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. ... Bill Medley (born William Thomas Medley on September 19, 1940 in Los Angeles, California) was one half of The Righteous Brothers singing duo. ... Eddie Griffin (July 15, 1968) is an American comedian and television/film actor. ... Billy Blanks Billy Blanks (b. ... 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. ... Convenience store window poster featuring Willis, Prague, Czech Republic (2002) Bruce Willis (born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19, 1955) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning American actor and singer. ... Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is a successful Hollywood film producer. ...

See also

• 1991 in film

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External links

• The Last Boy Scout at the Internet Movie Database