The Last Boy Scout (1991) on Netflix
Joe Hallenbeck, a disgraced former Secret Service agent turned private investigator, is hired to guard a stripper, Cory. When she is killed, he joins her boyfriend, former quarterback Jimmy Dix.
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Plot summary
Joe Hallenbeck is a private investigator and a disgraced former Secret Service agent. His friend and business partner, Mike Matthews, gives him a job guarding a stripper named Cory. A car bomb outside Joe's house kills Mike. At a strip club, hitmen knock Joe unconscious, and Cory is killed. Her boyfriend is Jimmy Dix, a former Los Angeles Stallions quarterback barred from the league over gambling charges and drug allegations. Jimmy and Joe set out to solve her murder, and Lieutenant Benjamin Bessalo questions them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Boy Scout (1991)
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- Joel Silver said Shane Black's original title for the script was Die Hard; Silver asked if he could take the title for a project he was working on called Nothing Lasts Forever, which eventually became Die Hard (1988).
- The Geffen Film Company outbid other companies for the script, paying a record $1.75 million with over $1 million guaranteed up front.
- Tony Scott accused Joel Silver of interfering with the production and swore off working with him again; his next film, True Romance, features an unflattering film producer character patterned after Silver.
- Although they partner up in the film, Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans really disliked working with each other, and Joel Silver was described by Sylvester Stallone as “insane, with long, horrible fits of sanity”.
- Shane Black said he wrote the script while mourning the loss of his first real love, doing little but smoking cigarettes and reading paperbacks until he transformed some of that bitterness into the private eye at the center of the story.
- The film was originally rated NC-17, and later cuts were made to its graphic scenes, which explains the quick-cut edits in some of the death scenes.
