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Heart Condition (1990)

Heart Condition poster
Directed by
James D. Parriott
Genre
drama film, comedy film, fantasy film, action film, buddy film, buddy cop film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
R
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 108 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A racist cop gets a heart transplant from a black lawyer he hated. The lawyer returns as a ghost to help the cop solve his own murder.

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What happens

Heart Condition is a 1990 American comedy film directed by James D. Parriott and starring Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington and Chloe Webb. Washington plays Napoleon Stone, a lawyer, and Hoskins plays Jack Moony, a racist police officer who hates Napoleon for dating his ex-girlfriend. The two compete in the same work force area in their community to help bring down the drug rate. Their goal would be to find the mysterious men that shot and killed Napoleon Stone. The film was released by New Line Cinema on February 2, 1990, and grossed over $4 million in the United States. It received negative reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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