Rent-a-Cop (1987) on Netflix
A masked thief turns Tony Church's drug bust into a disaster, and Church loses his police job. Della Roberts, a prostitute who saw the thief's face, hires him as her bodyguard.
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Plot summary
Chicago detective Tony Church is running a drug bust with his team when a masked thief interrupts it. Church tries to stop him and fails, and the thief grabs Della Roberts as a hostage; she gets away. The department blames Church and takes his badge. Della, a high-priced prostitute, was in the hotel and saw the thief's face clearly. When the thief comes after her, she escapes and decides she needs protection. She finds Church working as a security guard at a shopping mall and offers to pay him to guard her until the thief is caught.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rent-a-Cop (1987)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Rent-a-Cop was Liza Minnelli's first film in five years, after she had been admitted to the Betty Ford Clinic in 1984 for substance abuse problems.
- Though Rent-a-Cop is set in Chicago, the movie was mostly filmed in Italy, with studio work done far from its American setting.
