Heart Condition (1990) on Netflix
Racist Los Angeles cop Jack Moony hates Napoleon Stone, the lawyer dating his ex-girlfriend. A heart attack leaves Moony with Stone's heart and Stone's ghost, who wants his murder solved.
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Plot summary
Jack Moony is a Los Angeles police sergeant whose habits have worn down his health, and who nurses a grudge against Napoleon Stone, the lawyer dating his former girlfriend, Crystal Gerrity. Stone dies, and Moony, after a heart attack, receives Stone's heart in the transplant that saves him. Back on his feet, Moony finds Stone's ghost beside him, visible and audible to no one else, insisting he was murdered. The ghost pushes Moony to find out who killed him. Moony, whose racism fed his dislike of Stone, has to pursue the inquiry while working with his partner, Harry Zara, who cannot see the ghost either.
Cast
- Frank R. Roachas Senator Marquand
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Heart Condition (1990)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- New Line Cinema shot Heart Condition using non-union crews and no high-profile stars to hold costs down; executive producer Robert Shaye said a major studio would have spent "several million more." The local Teamsters Union staged protests during location shoots, causing delays.
- Denzel Washington insisted on tempering some of the racial elements before he accepted the role of Napoleon Stone, a character writer-director James D. Parriott had first conceived as "a flashy black pimp" and which struggled to attract prominent African-American actors.
- Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Brian Dennehy and Dennis Hopper were considered to play Jack Moony in Heart Condition before the part went to Bob Hoskins.
