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Rush Hour (franchise), the Glossary

The Rush Hour franchise is a series of American buddy cop action comedy films created by Ross LaManna and directed by Brett Ratner with both Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in leading roles.^[1]

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Film series introduced in 1998
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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Aimee Garcia

Aimee Sandimés Garcia López de Ordóñez (born November 28, 1978) is an American actress and writer.

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Alan King

Alan King (born Irwin Alan Kniberg; December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American comedian, actor and satirist known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants.

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Arthur M. Sarkissian

Arthur M. Sarkissian is an Armenian-American film producer mainly known for being one of the producers of the Rush Hour series.

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Australian Classification Board

The Australian Classification Board (ACB or CB) is an Australian government statutory body responsible for the classification and censorship of films, video games and publications for exhibition, sale or hire in Australia.

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Bill Lawrence (TV producer)

William Van Duzer Lawrence IV (born December 26, 1968) is an American television producer, screenwriter, and director.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (film)

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a 2016 war drama film directed by Ang Lee and written by Jean-Christophe Castelli, based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Ben Fountain.

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Blake McCormick

Blake McCormick is a television producer.

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Brett Ratner

Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is an American film director and producer.

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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.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo, is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Chris Tucker

Christopher Tucker (born August 31, 1971) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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CinemaScore

CinemaScore is a market research firm based in Las Vegas.

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Culture shock

Culture shock is an experience a person may have when one moves to a cultural environment which is different from one's own; it is also the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, a move between social environments, or simply transition to another type of life.

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Danny DeVito

Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings (also simply known as Def Jam) is an American multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Don Cheadle

Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. (born November 29, 1964) is an American actor.

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Elizabeth Peña

Elizabeth Maria Peña (September 23, 1959 – October 14, 2014) was an American actress.

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ESPN

ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.

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Film director

A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.

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Film series

A film series or movie series (also referred to as a film franchise or movie franchise) is a collection of related films in succession that share the same fictional universe, or are marketed as a series.

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Fish out of water

Fish out of water is an idiom used to refer to a person who is in unfamiliar, and often uncomfortable, surroundings.

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Gianni Russo

Gianni Vito Russo (born December 12, 1943) is an American actor.

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Guest appearance

The term guest appearance generally denotes the appearance of a guest in an artistic or pop-culture setting.

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Henry Ian Cusick

Henry Ian Cusick (born 17 April 1967) is a Peruvian-Scottish actor of television, film, and theatre and a television director.

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Hiroyuki Sanada

is a Japanese actor, producer, singer and martial artist.

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Hollywood Pictures

Hollywood Pictures Company was an American film production label of Walt Disney Studios, founded and owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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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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James Lew

James Jene Fae Lew (born September 6, 1952) is an American martial artist, stuntman, and actor.

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Jeff Ingold

Jeff Ingold is an American TV producer.

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Jeff Nathanson

Jeffrey D. Nathanson is an American screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Jeremy Piven

Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an American actor and comedian.

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Jessika Van

Jessika Van is an American actress, singer-songwriter, pianist and dancer.

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Jet Li

Li Lianjie (courtesy name Yangzhong; born 26 April 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese-born Singaporean martial artist and actor.

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Jim Kouf

Jim Kouf (born July 24, 1951) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Joe Roth

Joseph Emanuel Roth (born June 13, 1948) is an American film executive, producer and director.

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John Lone

John Lone (jyutping: zyun1 lung4; born October 13, 1952) is a Chinese-American actor.

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Jon Foo

Jon Foo (born 30 October 1982) is a British actor, martial artist and stunt performer known for his role as Jin Kazama in the 2009 live action film Tekken.

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Jon Turteltaub

Jonathan Charles Turteltaub (born August 8, 1963) is an American film director and producer.

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Justin Hires

Justin Hires (born June 24, 1985) is an American actor and stand-up comedian.

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Ken Leung

Kenneth Leung (born January 21, 1970) is an American actor.

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Kirk Fox

Kirk Fox is an American actor, screenwriter, and stand-up comedian.

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Lalo Schifrin

Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor.

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Li Bingbing

Li Bingbing (born 27 February 1973) is a Chinese actress and singer who rose to fame with her role in Seventeen Years (1999) and since then received critical acclaim for her roles in A World Without Thieves (2004), Waiting Alone (2005), The Knot (2006), The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), The Message (2009), Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010) and Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal (2015).

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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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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Mark Helfrich (film editor)

Mark Helfrich (born November 13, 1957) is an American film editor and director.

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Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950) is an American musician and composer.

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Mark Rolston

Mark Rolston (born December 7, 1956) is an American character actor, known for his supporting roles in such films as Aliens, Lethal Weapon 2, ''Prancer'', The Shawshank Redemption, Rush Hour, The Departed, and the Saw film series, as well as Gordie Liman in The Shield (2003).

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Martial arts

Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defence; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.

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Martin Lawrence

Martin Fitzgerald LawrenceStated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio (born April 16, 1965) is an American actor and comedian.

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Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Money Talks (1997 film)

Money Talks is a 1997 American action comedy film directed by Brett Ratner (in his directorial debut) and starring Chris Tucker and Charlie Sheen.

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Motion capture

Motion capture (sometimes referred as mo-cap or mocap, for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people.

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Motion Picture Association

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is an American trade association representing the five major film studios of the United States, as well as the video streaming service Netflix.

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Motion Picture Association film rating system

The Motion Picture Association film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a motion picture's suitability for certain audiences based on its content.

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Mr. Nice Guy (1997 film)

Mr.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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New Line Cinema

New Line Productions, Inc., doing business as New Line Cinema, is an American film and television production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).

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Newshub

Newshub (stylised as Newshub.) was a New Zealand news service that aired on the television channel Three, and on digital platforms, until July 2024.

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Nile Rodgers

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Noémie Lenoir

Noémie Lenoir (born 19 September 1979) is a French model and actress.

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Page Kennedy

Page Kennedy (born Felton Eugene Kennedy II November 23, 1976) is an American actor and rapper.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Philip Baker Hall

Philip Baker Hall (September 10, 1931 – June 12, 2022) was an American character actor.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.

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Rex Linn

Rex Maynard Linn (born November 13, 1956) is an American film and television actor.

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Roger Birnbaum

Roger Birnbaum (born November 14, 1950) is an American film, television, and executive producer.

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Roman Polanski

Raymond Roman Thierry Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a French and Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and convicted sex offender.

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Roselyn Sánchez

Roselyn Milagros Sánchez Rodríguez (born April 2, 1973) is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress, producer, and writer.

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Ross LaManna

Ross LaManna is an American screenwriter and author.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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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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Rush Hour (American TV series)

Rush Hour is an American police procedural comedy-drama television series developed by Bill Lawrence and Blake McCormick that is based on the film of the same name.

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Rush Hour (soundtrack)

Def Jam's Rush Hour Soundtrack is the soundtrack to Brett Ratner's 1998 action comedy film Rush Hour.

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Rush Hour 2

Rush Hour 2 is a 2001 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Brett Ratner and written by Jeff Nathanson.

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Rush Hour 2 (soundtrack)

Def Jam's Rush Hour 2 Soundtrack is the soundtrack to Brett Ratner's 2001 action-comedy film Rush Hour 2.

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Rush Hour 3

Rush Hour 3 is a 2007 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Brett Ratner, written by Jeff Nathanson.

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Saul Rubinek

Saul Hersh Rubinek (born July 2, 1948) is a Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright.

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Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan (born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi cinema.

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STX Entertainment

STX Entertainment is an American independent entertainment and media company.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Tom Wilkinson

Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson (5 February 1948 – 30 December 2023) was an English actor.

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Luminate.

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Tzi Ma

Tzi Ma (born June 10, 1962) is a Hong Kong-American actor.

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Warner Bros. Pictures

Warner Bros.

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Wendie Malick

Wendie Malick (born December 13, 1950) is an American actress and former fashion model, known for her roles in various television comedies.

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William Morris

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement.

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X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class (stylized on-screen as X: First Class) is a 2011 superhero film based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics.

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X-Men: The Last Stand

X-Men: The Last Stand (also marketed as X3: The Last Stand, or X-Men 3) is a 2006 superhero film based on the X-Men comic books published by Marvel Entertainment Group.

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