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L.A. Heat (1989)

L.A. Heat poster
Directed by
Joseph Merhi
Genre
independent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
R
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Los Angeles detective who fancies himself a cowboy hero is assigned to hunt down a dangerous drug dealer. The film mixes police action with the detective's old west fantasies.

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What happens

L.A. Heat is a 1989 police film directed by Joseph Merhi and starring Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Jim Brown. The film follows Detective Jon Chance, a Los Angeles detective who dreams of being a cowboy hero and living by "the code of the West," as he is assigned to track down a violent drug dealer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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