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Release Date: 1991 Cast: James Coburn, Frank Stallone, Lorraine Toussaint, Bruce Willis, David Caruso, Sandra Bernhard, Andie MacDowell, Danny Aiello, Andrew Bryniarski, Richard E. Grant, Don Harvey
Categories: Movies, Parody, Crime Fiction, Crime Comedy, Action Comedy, Action, Action/Adventure, Comedy, Caper story Hudson Hawk is a 1991 American action comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann. Bruce Willis stars in the title role and also co-wrote the story. Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, David Caruso, Lorraine Toussaint, Frank Stallone, Sandra Bernhard, and Richard E. Grant are also featured.
The live action film makes heavy use of cartoon-style slapstick, including sound effects, which enhances the movie's signature surreal humour. The plot combines material based on conspiracy theories, secret societies, and historic mysteries, as well as outlandish "clockpunk" technology à la... MORE
Hudson Hawk is a 1991 American action comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann. Bruce Willis stars in the title role and also co-wrote the story. Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, David Caruso, Lorraine Toussaint, Frank Stallone, Sandra Bernhard, and Richard E. Grant are also featured.
The live action film makes heavy use of cartoon-style slapstick, including sound effects, which enhances the movie's signature surreal humour. The plot combines material based on conspiracy theories, secret societies, and historic mysteries, as well as outlandish "clockpunk" technology à la Coburn's Our Man Flint movies of the 1960s.
A recurring plot device in the film has Hudson and his partner Tommy "Five-Tone" (Aiello) singing songs concurrently but separately, to time and synchronize their exploits. Willis-Aiello duets of Bing Crosby's Swinging on a Star and Paul Anka's Side by Side feature on the film's soundtrack.
Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins (Bruce Willis) — "Hudson Hawk" is an expression that refers to the often bracing winds off of the Hudson river — is a master burglar and safe-cracker, attempting to celebrate his first day of parole from prison with a cappuccino. Before he can LESS
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