Double Whammy (2001) on Netflix
After his back gives out during a shooting at a burger restaurant, Ray Pluto is tagged a loser cop by the tabloids. His partner sends him to a chiropractor, Dr. Ann Beamer.
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Plot summary
Ray Pluto is a New York City police detective. During a shooting at a burger restaurant, his back gives out and he falls; a boy in the crowd shoots the gunman. The tabloids now mock Ray as a loser cop, and the department puts him on limited duty. He is haunted by memories of the traffic accident that killed his wife and their child. His partner, Detective Jerry Cubbins, persuades him to seek treatment for his back from a chiropractor, Dr. Ann Beamer, and the two grow close. In Ray's West Side apartment building, Cletis and Duke, two young men across the hall, want to write a movie script and keep asking him for help.
Cast
- Millie Tirellias Yolanda
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Double Whammy (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges and Michael Keaton were all considered for the role of detective Ray Pluto, but writer-director Tom DiCillo insisted on Denis Leary for the part.
- At the Sundance premiere, Tom DiCillo called distributors "the sleaziest, freakiest people I have ever encountered in the business"; two days later Lions Gate, which had turned the script down, bought the North American rights for $1 million.
- Even with Denis Leary and Elizabeth Hurley attached, Tom DiCillo could not secure funding: Sony Pictures Classics, Fine Line Features, The Shooting Gallery, Fox Searchlight and Lions Gate Films all turned the film down, saying it fit no recognizable genre and would be hard to market.
- Lions Gate planned a 40-theater theatrical release, but two weeks after the deal its then-president Mark Urman left the company and two weeks later Dave Kronemyer was forced out of Gold Circle; the film went straight to DVD instead.
