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Terry Lynch, a New York City firefighter, is drinking in a bar while off duty when a fire breaks out across the street. He goes in, saves a child and is injured. The city refuses to pay his benefits because he had been drinking and was not on duty, and he grows suicidal. His younger brother Jimmy appeals to Mayor Tyler, who dismisses Terry as a drunk. At one of the mayor's appearances Jimmy paints slogans about a corruption case involving a member of the mayor's staff, then keeps painting them wherever the mayor goes, signing each one Turk 182. The mayor orders the graffiti writer stopped.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Turk 182! (1985)
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- In 1980, Dyan Cannon announced she would direct and star in the film. It was not made for another number of years, and when it was, Timothy Hutton starred and Bob Clark directed instead.
- Then-current and former members of WABC's Eyewitness News team portrayed the television journalists reporting on Turk's exploits, including Roger Grimsby, Bill Beutel, Roseanne Scamardella and Tom Dunn.
- Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that "Timothy Hutton has turned into an actor worth watching in anything, even in Turk 182!, a movie with a sloppily sentimental heart that's as big as the city in which its story takes place."
- The film received two Golden Raspberry Award nominations, for Robert Urich as Worst Supporting Actor and Paul Zaza for Worst Musical Score, losing to Rob Lowe for St. Elmo's Fire and Vince DiCola for Rocky IV respectively.
- Turk 182, the 1985 Bob Clark comedy-drama starring Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich and Kim Cattrall, was one of the first movies to receive a PG-13 rating.
