The Rookie (1990)

R  |   |  Action, Comedy, Crime  |  7 December 1990 (USA)
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Clint Eastwood plays a veteran detective who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German crook (Raul Julia.)

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Liesl
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Eugene Ackerman
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Sarah
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Ken Blackwell
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Storyline

Nick Pulovski is a cop, who is presently assigned to the auto theft division and who for the most part of his career has not done anything worthwhile. But when he discovers that a man named Strom is the brains behind a major car theft and chop shop ring, he sees this as his opportunity to do something. After his partner is killed, the case is then transfered to homicide, so he is taken off the case. And he is assigned a new partner, David Ackerman. a cop who has just recently been promoted to detective. But Pulovski feeling as if Strom is his decides to continue pursuing him but Ackerman who tries to play by the rules is not sure what to do, and he is also a little afraid cause of a childhood incident. Written by <rcs0411@yahoo.com>

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What could a veteran and a rookie cop do this Christmas.


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7 December 1990 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

El principiante  »

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$21,633,874 (USA)
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Trivia

The film's "The Rookie" title was used around twelve years later for another Hollywood movie, an unrelated sports film, The Rookie (2002). The title was also used for 1959's The Rookie (1959). See more »

Goofs

In the initial car chase scene, after the Porsche is cut loose from the trailer and causes the backup that makes the yellow cab fly into the air and roll over, the rail used to roll the car is visible. See more »

Quotes

Strom: What made you think that a dumb Polack like you could outsmart someone like me?
Nick Pulovski: Well, it's just that the arrogant fuckin' Kraut like you was in the firing line.
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Referenced in La verdadera historia de Barman y Droguin (1991) See more »

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All The Things You Are
Written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
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One of the worst films I have ever seen...
1 January 2007 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

I'm sorry people but what film where you watching. I am quite literally stunned that Mr Eastwood had the gall to release this flaccid turd of a movie. The acting from everyone is so hammy but just not bad enough for it to be amusing which removes any reason at all to waste even half an hour making your mind up to turn it off. Dreadful. And to think this cost money?

The supposed 'great' comic lines are so hackneyed they should be driving their own taxi's 'round Shoreditch instead of polluting our ears and what on Earth was the point of that superfluous love scene Clint?

Utter drivel, don't bother.


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