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Plot summary
With a week left before LAPD sergeant Roger Murtaugh retires, he and Martin Riggs fail to defuse a bomb in an office building and end up on uniform patrol. On patrol they spot an armored car robbery in progress and, with the driver Delores, help stop it. One thief escapes, but Billy Phelps is caught, and the bullets in his possession are armor-piercing. Phelps has ties to Jack Travis, an ex-LAPD lieutenant who runs a local arms smuggling ring. Riggs and Murtaugh get their badges back and are put on the case with Sergeant Lorna Cole of internal affairs. Travis is negotiating an arms deal with the mobster Tyrone.
Cast
- Thomas A. Geasas Man at Hamburger Stand
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The building destroyed in the film's opening bomb scene was really the former Orlando, Florida city hall, and Warner Bros. paid $500,000 toward its actual demolition to use the destruction in the movie.
- After the film's success, Warner Bros. chief Robert A. Daly bought Land Rovers for stars Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci and Rene Russo plus director Richard Donner, writer Jeffrey Boam and producer Joel Silver, a $320,000 gift he later said was worth it because it helped lead to Lethal Weapon 4, which made $285 million.
- Screenwriter Jeffrey Boam ended up rewriting his own script after Robert Mark Kamen was brought in, earning the rare double screenplay credit "Jeffrey Boam and Robert Mark Kamen"; when the studio's own ad department assumed this was a misprint and issued posters crediting Boam alone for the story, the Writers Guild made them recall and destroy the posters.
- The movie's hockey scene was filmed during a real NHL game between the Los Angeles Kings and Toronto Maple Leafs, and goaltender Kelly Hrudey eventually got annoyed at the film crew's extra lighting rigs and asked them to stop filming.
- The hotel blown up during the closing credits was the real, 68-year-old Soreno Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the filmmakers helped pay for its actual implosion.
