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Bad Boys (1995)

★ 6.8 · 6,917 ratings on TMDB

Whatcha gonna do?

Bad Boys poster★ 6.8

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

DirectorMichael Bay
CastJoe Pantoliano, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Marg Helgenberger, Martin Lawrence, Nestor Serrano, Saverio Guerra
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Bad Boys 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.

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