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Lethal Weapon (1987)

★ 7.3 · 5,014 ratings on TMDB

If these two can learn to stand each other... the bad guys don't stand a chance.

Lethal Weapon poster★ 7.3

A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces.

DirectorRichard Donner
CastDamon Hines, Danny Glover, Darlene Love, Ebonie Smith, Gary Busey, Jackie Swanson
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

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

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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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.

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)dir. Richard DonnerLethal Weapon 2 (1989)dir. Richard DonnerLethal Weapon 4 (1998)dir. Richard DonnerPredator 2 (1990)Danny GloverSaw (2004)Danny GloverBraveheart (1995)Mel Gibson