Rush Hour

Theatrical - Wide 1998-09-18

Cast Jackie Chan Chris Tucker Tom Wilkinson Elizabeth Peña Chris Penn
Directed by Brett Ratner
Written by Jim Kouf Ross LaManna

Box Office Gross: $244,721,064

Running Time: 97 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: New Line Cinema, Arthur Sarkissian Productions, Roger Birnbaum Productions

Genres: Action Comedy Crime

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7/10

Synopsis

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn’t want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from... See more the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.

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Rush Hour

Posted 28 years ago

Review Date: Director: Brett Ratner Writer: Jim Kouf and Ross LaManna Producers: Arthur M. Sarkissian, Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman Actors: Chris Tucker as Detective James Carter Jackie Chan as Detective Inspector Lee Plot: A Hong Kong businessman’s daughter is kidnapped...

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Networks order series based on Uncle Buck, Muppets, Rush Hour, and Limitless

Posted 11 years ago

Over the last several months, we have heard lots of stories about popular films being adapted as television series. Some have made it to air while others have disappeared without a second thought. As networks begin ordering shows for their...

CBS orders Rush Hour series pilot from Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence

Posted 12 years ago

Despite not bringing BEVERLY HILLS COP to the small screen, CBS instead will move forward with a RUSH HOUR series from SCRUBS creator Bill Lawrence and film director Brett Ratner. We first heard about the RUSH HOUR series back in...

Brett Ratner and Scrubs creator rebooting Rush Hour as a TV series

Posted 12 years ago

RUSH HOUR 4 is dead. Long live RUSH HOUR the television hourlong action series! Brett Ratner, the director who inexplicably keeps getting big budget productions greenlit, has finally found a way to tell a new RUSH HOUR story without Jackie...

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