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Michael Keneely (Creator/ElliottGould) and Patrick Farrel (Creator/RobertBlake) are world-weary vice detectives in the LAPD. Few of their arrests stick thanks to Carl Rizzo (Allen Garfield), a crime lord who has most of the police department in his pocket. Keneely and Farrel are determined to take Rizzo down, even though the entire police department is against them.
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Michael Keneely (Creator/ElliottGould) and Patrick Farrel (Creator/RobertBlake) are world-weary vice detectives in the LAPD. Few of their arrests stick thanks to Carl Rizzo (Allen Garfield), (Creator/AllenGarfield), a crime lord who has most of the police department in his pocket. Keneely and Farrel are determined to take Rizzo down, even though the entire police department is against them.them.
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Throwing a case out for lack of evidence is not Off On A Technicality. Evidence (or lack thereof) is crucial and not a "technicality".
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* OffOnATechnicality: Keneely arrests a prostitute, but since she didn't specifically state that she would perform a sex act for money, and because another officer was bribed to replace her trick book with a blank notebook, there's no evidence against her that would hold up in court, and the judge throws the case out.
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* FreezeFrameEnding: The film ends with a freeze-frame ending of Keneely's face, with a voice-over of him [[spoiler:applying for a new job after quitting the police department]].
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* HappyBirthdayToYou: At Rizzo's birthday party, his friends sing "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow."
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Keneely and Farrel are both brutally beaten by Rizzo's goons.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Keneely and Farrel are both brutally beaten by Rizzo's goons.
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* StaircaseTumble: During one ChaseScene, the protagonists run down a stairwell so quickly that Keneely tumbles partway down each flight.
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* BathroomStallGraffiti: To keep them off Rizzo's case, Keneely and Farrel are assigned to look for perverts in a bathroom covered in graffiti. Keneely writes Rizzo's name in one stall.
-->'''Keneely''': [[KilroyWasHere Kilroy]], how you doing?
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Keneely and Farrel break into Rizzo's apartment, where Farrel samples a white substance from a bottle and identifies it as baby powder.
-->'''Keneely''': [[KilroyWasHere Kilroy]], how you doing?
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Keneely and Farrel break into Rizzo's apartment, where Farrel samples a white substance from a bottle and identifies it as baby powder.
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[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/busting.jpg]]
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''Busting'' is a 1974 buddy cop film written and directed by Creator/PeterHyams.
Michael Keneely (Creator/ElliottGould) and Patrick Farrel (Creator/RobertBlake) are world-weary vice detectives in the LAPD. Few of their arrests stick thanks to Carl Rizzo (Allen Garfield), a crime lord who has most of the police department in his pocket. Keneely and Farrel are determined to take Rizzo down, even though the entire police department is against them.
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!!''Busting'' contains examples of:
* OffOnATechnicality: Keneely arrests a prostitute, but since she didn't specifically state that she would perform a sex act for money, and because another officer was bribed to replace her trick book with a blank notebook, there's no evidence against her that would hold up in court, and the judge throws the case out.
* OralFixation: Keneely chews lots of gum, and Farrel usually has a cigarette in his mouth, even though he doesn't smoke. Farrel calls it a nervous habit.
* TantrumThrowing: Keneely angrily throws the blank "trick book" down the hall.
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Michael Keneely (Creator/ElliottGould) and Patrick Farrel (Creator/RobertBlake) are world-weary vice detectives in the LAPD. Few of their arrests stick thanks to Carl Rizzo (Allen Garfield), a crime lord who has most of the police department in his pocket. Keneely and Farrel are determined to take Rizzo down, even though the entire police department is against them.
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!!''Busting'' contains examples of:
* OffOnATechnicality: Keneely arrests a prostitute, but since she didn't specifically state that she would perform a sex act for money, and because another officer was bribed to replace her trick book with a blank notebook, there's no evidence against her that would hold up in court, and the judge throws the case out.
* OralFixation: Keneely chews lots of gum, and Farrel usually has a cigarette in his mouth, even though he doesn't smoke. Farrel calls it a nervous habit.
* TantrumThrowing: Keneely angrily throws the blank "trick book" down the hall.
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