Hudson Hawk (1991)
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22% of critics liked it
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53% of users liked it
(43,561 ratings)
Michael Lehmann directed this post-modernist hash of To Catch a Thief and The Naked Gun starring Bruce Willis as Hudson Hawk, a cat burglar who wants to go straight, but the circumstances won't allow it. The story begins in a pre-credit sequence that takes place in the renaissance. Leonardo Da… More Michael Lehmann directed this post-modernist hash of To Catch a Thief and The Naked Gun starring Bruce Willis as Hudson Hawk, a cat burglar who wants to go straight, but the circumstances won't allow it. The story begins in a pre-credit sequence that takes place in the renaissance. Leonardo Da Vinci (Stefano Molinari) is rushing through his Mona Lisa painting to work on his latest invention -- a machine to turn lead into bronze. But Da Vinci makes a mistake and, instead of bronze, the machine turns the lead into gold. Realizing the danger of his invention if the contraption gets into the wrong hands, he hides three parts of the apparatus inside three of his other works. Four hundred years later, Hudson Hawk, the world's greatest cat burglar, is being released from jail after pulling a ten-year stretch. He wants to retire from the profession of cat burglary and drink some cappuccino, but two screwball billionaires -- Darwin and Minerva Mayflower (Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard) -- won't let him. Their nefarious plot is to steal the three Da Vinci works, restore Da Vinci's gold-making machine, and destroy the world's monetary system. They blackmail Hawks into working with them to steal the Da Vincis by threatening the life of Hawks's pal Tommy Five-Tone (Danny Aiello). Along with the power-mad billionaires, Hawks has to deal with the CIA, in the person of George Kaplan (James Coburn), breathing down his neck. He also has Vatican art restorer Anna Baragli (Andie MacDowell) falling for his smirk. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Michael Lehmann
- Written By
- Bruce Willis, Robert Kraft
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Comedy
- In Theaters
- May 24, 1991 Limited
- Studio
- TriStar Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
This unspeakably awful can make an audience a little crazy. You want to throw things, yell at the actors, beg them to stop.
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Joe Brown, Washington Post
To say this megamillion Bruce Willis vehicle doesn't fly is understatement in the extreme.
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Hal Hinson, Washington Post
A crafty satire, but with a swashbuckling soul.
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Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com
There was a brief time when a new Michael Lehmann film meant something positive. I know, hard to believe.
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Brian Orndorf, DVDTalk.com
A delightfully outlandish vanity film, capable of eliciting giggles, groans, guffaws, and gagging frequently in the same fanciful instant.
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Cast
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Bruce Willis
as Hudson Hawk
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Danny Aiello
as Tommy Five-Tone
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Andie MacDowell
as Anna Baragli
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Sandra Bernhard
as Minerva Mayflower
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Richard E. Grant
as Darwin Mayflower
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James Coburn
as George Kaplan
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Donald Burton
as Alfred
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Don Harvey
as Snickers
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David Caruso
as Kit Kat
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Andrew Bryniarski
as Butterfinger
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Lorraine Toussaint
as Almond Joy
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P. Randall Bowers
as Prison Clerk
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Leo Cimino
as Cardinal
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Massimo Ciprari
as Pope
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Giangiacomo Colli
as Waiter
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Burtt Harris
as Gates
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Michael Klastorin
as Dean
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John Lucantonio
as Vatican Guard
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Douglas Brian Martin
as Flunkie
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Stefano Molinari
as Leonardo da Vinci
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Frank Page
as Mario's Driver
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Lisa Reich
as Girl in Car
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Remo Remotti
as Guy on Donkey
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John Savident
as Auctioneer
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Courtenay Semel
as Bratty Kid
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Bob Vazquez
as Big Stan
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Enrico Lo Verso
as Apprentice
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Giselda Volodi
as Mona Lisa
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Arthur M. Wolpinsky
as Prison Security Guard
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Carmine Zozzora
as Anthony Mario
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William Conrad
as Narrator
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Scott Eddo
as Jerry
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Frank Stallone
as Cesar Mario
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Frank Welker
as Bunny the Dog
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Steven M. Martin
as Ook
