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Red Heat (1988)

★ 6.2 · 1,596 ratings on TMDB

Moscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing worse than making them mad. Making them partners.

Red Heat poster★ 6.2

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.

DirectorWalter Hill
CastArnold Schwarzenegger, Brent Jennings, Ed O'Ross, Gina Gershon, Gretchen Palmer, Jim Belushi
GenresAction, Crime
The emergence reading

Red Heat keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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