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Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

★ 7.2 · 4,572 ratings on TMDB

He's been chased, thrown through a window and arrested. Eddie Murphy is a Detroit cop on vacation in Beverly Hills.

Beverly Hills Cop poster★ 7.2

Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.

DirectorMartin Brest
CastEddie Murphy, Gilbert R. Hill, James Russo, John Ashton, Jonathan Banks, Judge Reinhold
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Beverly Hills Cop keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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