Buddy film, the Glossary
The buddy film is a subgenre of romantic comedy, a combination of the romance, adventure and comedy film in which two people, bonded through some kind of affection or love for each other, go on an adventure, mission, or road trip.[1]
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/Film
/Film, also spelled Slashfilm, is a blog that covers movie news, reviews, interviews, and trailers.
A Place Further than the Universe
is an original Japanese anime television series produced by Madhouse.
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Abbott and Costello
Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work in radio, film, and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and 1950s, and the highest-paid entertainers in the world during the Second World War.
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Action film
The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work. Buddy film and action film are film genres.
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Adventure film
An adventure film is a genre of film. Buddy film and adventure film are film genres.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.
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Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 films in a career spanning over five decades.
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All the President's Men (film)
All the President's Men is a 1976 American biographical political thriller film about the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon.
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AllMovie
AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.
Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
Arts Council Norway
The Arts Council Norway (Norsk kulturråd, often shortened to Kulturrådet) is the official arts council for Norway.
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Bad Boys (1995 film)
Bad Boys is a 1995 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Michael Bay in his feature directorial debut, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Tchéky Karyo, Theresa Randle, and Joe Pantoliano.
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is a 1996 American adult animated comedy road film based on the MTV animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head.
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Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Martin Brest, with a screenplay by Daniel Petrie Jr., and story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie Jr.
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film directed by Stephen Herek and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon.
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality, and businessman.
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Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.
Bromance
A bromance is a very close and non-sexual relationship between two or more men.
Bromantic comedy
A bromantic comedy is a comedy film genre that takes the formula of the typical "romantic comedy" but focuses on close male friendships. Buddy film and bromantic comedy are film genres.
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Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is a retired American actor.
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Buck Privates
Buck Privates is a 1941 American musical military comedy film directed by Arthur Lubin that turned Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into bona fide movie stars.
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Buddy cop
Buddy cop is a film and television genre with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process. Buddy film and Buddy cop are film genres.
Bulletproof (1996 film)
Bulletproof is a 1996 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Ernest Dickerson and starring Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman.
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California Highway Patrol
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is the principal state police agency for the U.S. state of California.
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CHiPs
CHiPs is an American crime drama television series created by Rick Rosner and originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977 to May 1, 1983.
Chris Tucker
Christopher Tucker (born August 31, 1971) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
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Cinema of Japan
The, also known domestically as, has a history that spans more than 100 years.
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Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
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Clerks (film)
Clerks is a 1994 American black-and-white comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith in his feature directorial debut.
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Comedy film
Comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. Buddy film and Comedy film are film genres.
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Cop Out (2010 film)
Cop Out is a 2010 American buddy cop action comedy film directed and edited by Kevin Smith, written by Mark and Robb Cullen (marking the first and only Smith-directed movie he did not write).
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Daily Nexus
The Daily Nexus is a campus newspaper at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
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Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian and American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.
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Danny Glover
Danny Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, producer and political activist.
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David Thomson (film critic)
David Thomson (born 18 February 1941) is a British film critic and historian based in the United States, and the author of more than 20 books.
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Dead Heat (1988 film)
Dead Heat (released in the Philippines as Iron Cops) is a 1988 American buddy cop action zombie comedy film directed by Mark Goldblatt and starring Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Darren McGavin, Lindsay Frost and Vincent Price.
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Deadline Hollywood
Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.
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Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian.
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Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director.
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Despicable Me 3
Despicable Me 3 (stylized onscreen as DESPICABLE M3) is a 2017 American animated comedy film produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination, and distributed by Universal.
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Die Hard
Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp.
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 American action thriller film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jonathan Hensleigh, which is based on the screenplay Simon Says by Hensleigh and the characters created by Roderick Thorp for his 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever.
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Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand.
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Double act
A double act (also known as a comedy duo) is a form of comedy originating in the British music hall tradition, and American vaudeville, in which two comedians perform together as a single act, often highlighting differences in their characters' personalities.
Drive Hard
Drive Hard (originally titled Hard Drive) is a 2014 Australian direct-to-video action buddy film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and written by Chad Law, Evan Law, and Smith.
Dumb and Dumber
Dumb and Dumber is a 1994 American buddy comedy film directed by Peter Farrelly, who cowrote the screenplay with Bobby Farrelly and Bennett Yellin.
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Easy Rider
Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper.
Eddie Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American comedian, actor, and singer.
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Edward VI
Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553.
Esquire (magazine)
Esquire is an American men's magazine.
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Face/Off
Face/Off is a 1997 American science fiction action film directed by John Woo, from a screenplay by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary.
Female buddy film
A female buddy film is a type of buddy film. Buddy film and female buddy film are female buddy films and film genres.
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Feminist movement
The feminist movement, also known as the women's movement, refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms on women's issues created by inequality between men and women.
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Film genre
A film genre is a stylistic or thematic category for motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film. Buddy film and film genre are film genres.
Film noir
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. Buddy film and Film noir are film genres.
Foil (narrative)
In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.
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Fried Green Tomatoes
Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Jon Avnet and based on Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
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Gammat Jammat
Gammat Jammat (translation: Fun And Frotic) is a 1987 Indian Marathi-language comedy film written by Shantaram Nandgaonkar, directed by Sachin Pilgaonkar and produced by Satish Kulkarni under the production banner of Shree Tulsi Productions.
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Geena Davis
Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an American actor.
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Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker.
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Gridlock'd
Gridlock'd is a 1997 American black comedy crime film written and directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall, and starring Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Lucy Liu and Thandiwe Newton.
Half Shot at Sunrise
Half Shot at Sunrise is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film starring the comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey and Dorothy Lee.
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Hardcastle and McCormick
Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 18, 1983, through May 5, 1986.
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (released in some international markets as Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies) is a 2004 American buddy stoner comedy film directed by Danny Leiner, written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, and starring John Cho, Kal Penn, and Neil Patrick Harris.
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Hindi cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.
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Home (2015 film)
Home is a 2015 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
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Hop (film)
Hop is a 2011 American live-action/animated Easter fantasy comedy film produced by Relativity Media and Illumination Entertainment, and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz is a 2007 buddy cop action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright and written by Wright and Simon Pegg.
Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
IndieWire
IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.
Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual.
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Institution
An institution is a humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior.
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor.
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Jackie Chan
Chan Kong-sang (born 7 April 1954), known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kong actor, director, writer, producer, martial artist, and stuntman known for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself.
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Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, humanitarian and entertainer, who was famously nicknamed "The King of Comedy" throughout the United States.
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John McClane
John McClane Sr. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the ''Die Hard'' film series, based on Joe Leland from Roderick Thorp's action novel Nothing Lasts Forever.
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John Woo
John Woo Yu-sen (born 22 September 1946) is a Hong Kong film director known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre.
Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress.
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Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy were a British-American comedy team during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957).
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Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon is a 1987 American buddy cop action film directed and co-produced by Richard Donner, written by Shane Black, and co-produced by Joel Silver.
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Lethal Weapon (TV series)
Lethal Weapon is an American buddy cop action comedy-drama television series developed by Matt Miller and based on the ''Lethal Weapon'' film franchise created by Shane Black.
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List of highest-grossing Hindi films
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood, consisting primarily of films in the Hindi language.
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List of Western subgenres
The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. Buddy film and List of Western subgenres are film genres.
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Los Angeles Daily News
The Los Angeles Daily News is the second-largest-circulating paid daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California, after the unrelated Los Angeles Times, and the flagship newspaper of the Southern California News Group, a branch of Colorado-based Digital First Media.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Male bonding
In ethology and social science, male bonding or male friendship is the formation of close personal relationships, and patterns of friendship or cooperation between males.
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Mallrats
Mallrats is a 1995 American buddy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Shannen Doherty, Claire Forlani, Ben Affleck, Jason Mewes, Joey Lauren Adams, Michael Rooker, and Smith as Silent Bob.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.
Masculinity
Masculinity (also called manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles associated with men and boys.
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Mel Gibson
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor and film director.
Men in Black (1997 film)
Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as "men in black", government agents who monitor and police extraterrestrials.
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Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy.
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Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a 1988 American action comedy film directed by Martin Brest, written by George Gallo, and starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin.
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Molly Haskell
Molly Clark Haskell (born September 29, 1939)Aitken, Ian, ed.
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Monsters, Inc.
Monsters, Inc. (also known as Monsters, Incorporated) is a 2001 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
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Mouse Hunt
Mouse Hunt is a 1997 American slapstick black comedy buddy film written by Adam Rifkin and directed by Gore Verbinski in his feature film directorial debut.
Multiracial people
The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.
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National Security (2003 film)
National Security is a 2003 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, and starring Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn.
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Nick Nolte
Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is an American actor.
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.
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Paste (magazine)
Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.
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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American road trip comedy film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes and starring Steve Martin and John Candy, with supporting roles by Laila Robins and Michael McKean.
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Point Break
Point Break is a 1991 American action film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by W. Peter Iliff.
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Police procedural
The police procedural, police show, or police crime drama is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasises the investigative procedure of police officers, police detectives, or law enforcement agencies as the protagonists, as contrasted with other genres that focus on non-police investigators such as private investigators.
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Racial color blindness
Racial color blindness refers to the belief that a person's race or ethnicity should not influence their legal or social treatment in society.
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Red Heat (1988 film)
Red Heat is a 1988 American buddy cop action comedy film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Walter Hill and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Soviet policeman Ivan Danko, and Jim Belushi as Chicago police detective Art Ridzik.
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Reginald VelJohnson
Reginald VelJohnson (born Reginald Johnson; August 16, 1952) is an American actor.
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Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
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Ride Along (film)
Ride Along is a 2014 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Tim Story and starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart.
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Road movie
A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. Buddy film and road movie are film genres.
Road to ...
Road to... is a series of seven comedy films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.
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Road to Singapore
Road to Singapore is a 1940 American semi-musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope.
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Robin Wood (critic)
Robert Paul "Robin" Wood (23 February 1931 – 18 December 2009) was an English film critic and educator who lived in Canada for much of his life.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Romance film
Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Buddy film and Romance film are film genres.
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Romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. Buddy film and romantic comedy are film genres.
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Running Scared (1986 film)
Running Scared is a 1986 American action comedy film directed by Peter Hyams, written by Gary Devore and Jimmy Huston, and starring Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, with Steven Bauer, Jimmy Smits and Dan Hedaya in supporting roles.
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Rush Hour (1998 film)
Rush Hour is a 1998 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Brett Ratner and written by Jim Kouf and Ross LaManna from a story by LaManna.
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Samurai Cop
Samurai Cop is a 1991 American direct-to-video action film written, coproduced and directed by Amir Shervan and starring Robert Z'Dar, Matt Hannon and Mark Frazer.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
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Scarecrow (1973 film)
Scarecrow is a 1973 American road drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino.
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Seven (1995 film)
Seven (often stylized as Se7en) is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker.
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Shanghai Noon
Shanghai Noon is a 2000 American martial arts western action comedy film directed by Tom Dey in his feature film debut, written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and starring Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson and Lucy Liu.
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Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)
Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 period mystery action film starring Robert Downey Jr. as the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Sholay
Sholay is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film directed by Ramesh Sippy, produced by his father G. P. Sippy, and written by Salim–Javed.
Shoot to Kill (1988 film)
Shoot to Kill (known outside North America as Deadly Pursuit) is a 1988 American buddy cop action thriller film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Sidney Poitier (in his first role in eleven years), Tom Berenger, Clancy Brown, Andrew Robinson, and Kirstie Alley.
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Showdown in Little Tokyo
Showdown in Little Tokyo is a 1991 American buddy cop action film directed by Mark L. Lester, who also produced with Martin E. Caan.
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Showtime (film)
Showtime is a 2002 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Tom Dey.
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Shrek
Shrek is a 2001 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book of the same name by William Steig.
Silver Streak (film)
Silver Streak is a 1976 American thriller comedy film, about a murder on a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train journey.
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Skin Trade (film)
Skin Trade is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham.
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Sonic the Hedgehog (film)
Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2020 action-adventure comedy film based on the video game series published by Sega.
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Sons of the Desert
Sons of the Desert is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy.
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Stakeout (1987 film)
Stakeout is a 1987 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by John Badham and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn.
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Stir Crazy (film)
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, written by Bruce Jay Friedman, produced by Hannah Weinstein, and starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as two unemployed friends who are given 125-year prison sentences after getting framed for a bank robbery.
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Stray Dog (film)
is a 1949 Japanese film noir crime drama directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura.
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Susan Sarandon
Susan Abigail Sarandon (née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actor.
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Takashi Shimura
was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981.
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Tango & Cash
Tango & Cash is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy film starring Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jack Palance, and Teri Hatcher.
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The 51st State
The 51st State (also known as Formula 51) is a 2001 action comedy film directed by Ronny Yu, written by Stel Pavlou, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Ricky Tomlinson, Sean Pertwee, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Walters and Meat Loaf.
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The Blues Brothers (film)
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis.
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The Boss Baby
The Boss Baby is a 2017 American animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
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The Bucket List
The Bucket List is a 2007 American buddy comedy-drama film directed and produced by Rob Reiner, written by Justin Zackham, and starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.
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The Daily Dot
The Daily Dot is a digital media company covering the culture of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
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The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation in 2022 of 65,369.
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The Emperor's New Groove
The Emperor's New Groove is a 2000 American animated fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is an American television miniseries created by Malcolm Spellman for the streaming service Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Sam Wilson / Falcon and Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier.
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The Fisher King
The Fisher King is a 1991 American fantasy comedy-drama film written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam.
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The Flying Deuces
The Flying Deuces, also known as Flying Aces, is a 1939 buddy comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy, in which the duo join the French Foreign Legion.
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The Hard Way (1991 film)
The Hard Way is a 1991 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by John Badham.
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The Land Before Time (film)
The Land Before Time is a 1988 animated adventure film directed and co-produced by Don Bluth from a screenplay by Stu Krieger and a story by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss; it is executive produced by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall.
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The Last Boy Scout
The Last Boy Scout is a 1991 American buddy action comedy film directed by Tony Scott from a screenplay by Shane Black, and produced by Joel Silver.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Nice Guys
The Nice Guys is a 2016 American neo-noir buddy action comedy film directed by Shane Black, who co-wrote the screenplay with Anthony Bagarozzi.
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The Odd Couple (film)
The Odd Couple is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Gene Saks, produced by Howard W. Koch and written by Neil Simon, based on his 1965 play.
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The Other Guys
The Other Guys is a 2010 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Adam McKay, who co-wrote it with Chris Henchy.
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The Pebble and the Penguin
The Pebble and the Penguin is a 1995 American independent animated musical comedy-adventure film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman.
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The Pelican Brief (film)
The Pelican Brief is a 1993 American legal thriller film based on the 1992 novel by John Grisham.
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The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain.
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The Road to El Dorado
The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 animated musical adventure comedy film directed by Eric "Bibo" Bergeron and Don Paul (in their feature directorial debuts), from a screenplay by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, as well as additional sequences directed by Will Finn and David Silverman.
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The Secret Life of Pets
The Secret Life of Pets is a 2016 American animated comedy film produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment, and distributed by Universal.
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The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
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Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American crime drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri.
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a 1974 American crime comedy film written and directed by Michael Cimino and starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy and Geoffrey Lewis.
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Tom Sawyer
Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Top Dog (1995 film)
Top Dog is a 1995 buddy cop action comedy film directed by Aaron Norris and starring Chuck Norris.
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Toshiro Mifune
was a Japanese actor and producer.
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Toy Story
Toy Story is a 1995 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
Trading Places
Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.
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Trolls (film)
Trolls is a 2016 American animated jukebox musical comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, based on the Good Luck Trolls dolls created by Thomas Dam.
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Turner & Hooch
Turner & Hooch is a 1989 American buddy cop comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Beasley the Dog as the eponymous characters respectively.
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Twins (1988 film)
Twins (rendered in its title sequence logo as TWiiNS) is a 1988 American buddy comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman.
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Two-hander
A two-hander is a term for a play, film, or television programme with only two main characters.
Up (2009 film)
Up is a 2009 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.
Voyagers!
Voyagers! is an American science-fiction television series about time travel that aired on NBC from October 3, 1982, to July 10, 1983, during the 1982–1983 season.
Waiting to Exhale
Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 American romance film directed by Forest Whitaker (in his feature film directorial debut) and starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett.
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Walking and Talking
Walking and Talking is a 1996 independent film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener and starring Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Todd Field, Liev Schreiber and Kevin Corrigan.
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Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American screen and stage actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters.
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Waterloo Region Record
The Waterloo Region Record (formerly The Record) is the daily newspaper covering Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, including the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge, as well as the surrounding area.
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Wayne's World (film)
Wayne's World is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Penelope Spheeris.
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Wedding Crashers
Wedding Crashers is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by David Dobkin, written by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher, starring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Christopher Walken with Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Bradley Cooper and Jane Seymour in supporting roles.
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Weird Science (film)
Weird Science is a 1985 American teen science fantasy comedy film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Kelly LeBrock.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. Buddy film and Western (genre) are film genres.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
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Wheeler & Woolsey
Wheeler & Woolsey were an American vaudeville comedy double act who performed together in comedy films from the late 1920s.
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White Men Can't Jump
White Men Can't Jump is a 1992 American sports comedy film written and directed by Ron Shelton.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman.
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Windtalkers
Windtalkers is a 2002 American war film directed and co-produced by John Woo, starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, and Christian Slater.
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Womance
A womance is a close but non-sexual, non-romantic relationship between two or more women.
Wuxia
italic (武俠, literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Buddy film and Wuxia are film genres.
Yaarana (1981 film)
Yaarana is a 1981 Indian musical drama film directed by Rakesh Kumar, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Amjad Khan, Neetu Singh, Tanuja, and Kader Khan.
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Zootopia
Zootopia (titled Zootropolis or Zoomania in various regions) is a 2016 American animated buddy cop action comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
2 Guns
2 Guns is a 2013 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg.
21 Jump Street (film)
21 Jump Street is a 2012 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller in their live action directorial debuts and written by Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall.
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48 Hrs.
48 Hrs. (pronounced 'forty-eight hours') is a 1982 American buddy cop action comedy film directed and co-written by Walter Hill, co-written by Larry Gross, Steven E. de Souza and Roger Spottiswoode, and starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy (the latter in his film debut) as a cop and a convict, respectively, who team up to catch two hardened criminals.
See also
Buddy films
Female buddy films
- Buddy film
- Female buddy film
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_film
Also known as Buddy comedy film, Buddy films, Buddy movie.
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