Last Action Hero (1993) on Netflix
PG-1319932h 10mActionAdventureComedy
Danny Madigan, ten, takes comfort in Jack Slater action movies after his father's death. A magic ticket pulls him inside Slater's world, where a lieutenant pairs him with the cop.
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Plot summary
Ten-year-old Danny Madigan lives with Irene, his widowed mother, in a New York City neighborhood plagued by crime, and after his father's death he takes comfort in action movies, above all the Jack Slater series. Nick, who owns the condemned theater and works its projector, hands him a golden ticket once belonging to Harry Houdini and lets him into an early screening of Jack Slater IV. Partway through the film the stub carries Danny into the Slater world, cutting into a car chase. At LAPD headquarters Danny lists the clues that this world is fiction, among them a cartoon cat detective named Whiskers, and Slater shrugs them off as the boy's imagination. Lieutenant Dekker assigns Danny to Slater as a partner and orders them to look into the dealings of mafia boss Tony Vivaldi.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Last Action Hero (1993)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Last Action Hero was reportedly the first movie to have an advertisement placed on a space-going rocket, which cost an additional $500,000.
- It was the first film released using Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, but only a few theaters were set up for the new format and many of those experienced technical problems.
- Zak Penn and Adam Leff wrote the original screenplay as a parody of action writers such as Shane Black, and Penn noted the studio ironically then had Black himself rewrite the script.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to persuade his coproducers to postpone the film's June 18 US release by four weeks, but they refused, fearing millions in lost summer revenue and negative publicity from a delay.
- A rough cut screened in May 1993 was reviewed negatively, and Sony destroyed the review cards; the film's word-of-mouth proved catastrophic, earning a "C+" CinemaScore.
- Several uncredited script doctors worked on the screenplay of Last Action Hero, among them Carrie Fisher, Larry Ferguson and William Goldman.
