Midnight Run (1988)

Robert De Niro (a bounty hunter) escorts Charles Grodin (an embezzler) from New York to Los Angeles, and they’re a fantastic comedy team in an action road picture. The duo spends most the film handcuffed — De Niro the put-upon ex-cop and Grodin perfectly droll.

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Only Good Movies: Best Action Comedy Films

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Audacious at the time: I was 11 years old, watching an R-rated movie with Eddie Murphy using the “fuck” word a lot. Murphy and producer Jerry Bruckheimer invented the buddy cop-action-comedy genre that is now such a cliché. Or maybe it was “48 Hrs.”

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