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Freebie and The Bean
Not the latest Disney, as the title implies, but still another cop motion picture, a strangely unsympathetic exercise that divides its...
Freebie and The Bean
An early variation on the buddy cops routine that is dominated by a series of spectacular car crashes as San Francisco cops James Caan and Alan Arkin pursue mobster Jack Kruschen. Hugely wrong (there are a flurry of racist jokes from Caan about Arkin's Mexican origins), this is a film where most of the characters are treated with contempt, but skipper Richard Girl puts so much energetic inventiveness into the turbulence you're little short of convinced he doesn't mean it.
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