An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is working undercover with the LAPD to bust Moses and Colton at a sting operation the LAPD has set up.
Acting
Damon Wayans deserved better scripts.
Stunts
Jeep Swenson as Bledsoe: absolute unit.
Direction
Ernest Dickerson elevates garbage material.
Director
Ernest R. Dickerson
Damon Wayans
Rock Keats / Jack Carter
Adam Sandler
Archie Moses
James Caan
Frank Colton
Jeep Swenson
Bledsoe
James Farentino
Capt. Jensen
Kristen Wilson
Traci
Larry McCoy
Detective Sulliman
Allen Covert
Detective Jones
Bill Nunn
Finch
Mark Roberts
Charles
Andrew Shaifer
Cop at Airport
Monica Potter
Biker's Woman
Jonathan Loughran
Rookie Cop
Steve White
Veteran Cop
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was originally written as a straight action drama, then rewritten as comedy when Wayans and Sandler signed on.
Released at the exact moment Sandler's career pivoted from cult comic to box office poison before The Wedding Singer saved him.
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