Turner & Hooch (1989) on Netflix
Three days before Scott Turner leaves his Cypress Beach post for Sacramento, his friend Amos Reed is murdered. The only witness is Reed's dog Hooch, who ends up in Scott's care.
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Plot summary
Scott Turner works as an investigator in Cypress Beach, California, and has three days left before a move to Sacramento, where he expects more interesting cases. He gives his replacement, David Sutton, a tour of the town and calls on Amos Reed, an old friend. A call takes both investigators to $8,000 in cash found on the beach. That night Amos is killed, and the only witness is his dog, Hooch, a Dogue de Bordeaux. Scott takes custody of the animal to keep it from being put down, and tries to leave it with Emily Carson, the town veterinarian, who says the dog will do Scott good. Hooch's destructive habits collide with Scott's ordered household.
Cast
- Andrew Walkeras Police Officer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Turner & Hooch (1989)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Touchstone Pictures paid $1 million for the Turner & Hooch screenplay, the highest amount the studio had ever paid for any script at the time.
- Original director Henry Winkler was fired thirteen days into filming by studio executive Jeffrey Katzenberg after a falling-out with star Tom Hanks, a story Winkler kept quiet for years until his friend Ron Howard confirmed it in 2020; Winkler later joked he got along better with Hooch than with Turner.
SPOILER
The dog playing Hooch, whose real name was Beasley, had a stunt double named Igor, and the effects company Animal Makers built an exact replica of him for his death scene.- The film's fictional town of Cypress Beach doesn't exist: its police department, wedding foot chase and car chase down Ocean View Ave were all shot using Pacific Grove, California, standing in for the invented setting.
- Tom Hanks recalled shooting a 16-hour stakeout scene with three constantly rotating cameras, including ones rigged on bungee cords around the car, because the crew let Hooch improvise and simply had Hanks react to whatever the dog did.
- In 2015, Richard Dreyfuss and Christine Turner Wagner, widow of Turner & Hooch producer Raymond Wagner, sued Disney over profits from this film and What About Bob?, accusing the studio of blocking an independent audit of the movies' returns.
- After Dreyfuss withdrew and Disney allowed the audit, auditors found Disney had actually made $32 million in profit and had denied Wagner her share; Disney settled with her in June 2018 on undisclosed terms.
