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* EarnYourHappyEnding:[[spoiler: both Scudder and Sarah, at the end they're a couple and been sober and happy for a while.]]
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* ShoutOut: The title is from ''Series/NakedCity'', which ended OnceAnEpisode with TheNarrator saying, "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."
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* HostageForMacGuffin: Involving a woman with a SawnOffShotgun duct-taped to her head, and Scudder threatening to burn up the drugs unless she's cut loose at once. This actually works (once he sets fire to a few kilos) but a BlastOut ensues anyway.
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The movie also stars Creator/RosannaArquette, Creator/AlexandraPaul, Creator/RandyBrooks, Creator/AndyGarcia, Creator/TommyLister, Creator/WilfredoHernandez, Creator/VytoRuginis, and Creator/JamesAvery.
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The movie also stars Creator/RosannaArquette, Creator/AlexandraPaul, Creator/RandyBrooks, Creator/AndyGarcia, Creator/TommyLister, Creator/TinyLister, Creator/WilfredoHernandez, Creator/VytoRuginis, and Creator/JamesAvery.
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A 1986 American Neo-Noir action thriller directed by Creator/HalAshby and co-written by Creator/OliverStone that follows an alcoholic former detective (Creator/JeffBridges) stumbling into LA's criminal underworld.
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A 1986 American Neo-Noir action thriller directed by Creator/HalAshby and co-written by Creator/OliverStone that follows an alcoholic former detective (Creator/JeffBridges) stumbling into LA's criminal underworld.
underworld. It was adapted (fairly loosely) from the novel of the same name by Lawrence Block, from his Literature/MatthewScudder series of detective stories.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Downplayed by Sarah...she's a good person, but not sweetness and light [[spoiler: she holds him responsible for getting her friend and fellow call girl Sunny killed]].killed]].
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* TitleDrop: During the opening narration.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Sunny's]] murder by the villains while Scudder is pursuit, takes place offscreen with the camera only showing blood splattered over the inside of the rear window.
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A 1986 American Neo-Noir action thriller directed by Creator/HalAshby and co-written byCreator/OliverStone by Creator/OliverStone that follows an alcoholic former detective (Creator/JeffBridges) stumbling into LA's criminal underworld.
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* DamselInDistress: Sarah in the climax.
* DumbBlonde: Sarah averts this throughout the film.
* EarnYourHappyEnding:[[spoiler: both Scudder and Sarah, at the end they're a couple and been sober and happyfor a while.]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: Alexandra Paul as the not-at-all-BrainyBrunette Sunny has a fully frontal nude scene. And there's Creator/RosannaArquette's Sarah cosplaying as a schoolgirl while on the job.
* {{Fandisservice}}:Sarah propositioning Scudder while she's drunk [[spoiler: and then throwing up on his crotch.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Sunny's]] murder by the villains while Scudder is pursuit, takes place offscreen with only blood splattered over the inside of the rear window.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Downplayed by Sarah...she's a good person, but not sweetness and light [[spoiler: she holds him responsible for getting her friend and fellow call girl Sunny killed]].
* DumbBlonde: Sarah averts this throughout the film.
* EarnYourHappyEnding:[[spoiler: both Scudder and Sarah, at the end they're a couple and been sober and happyfor a while.]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: Alexandra Paul as the not-at-all-BrainyBrunette Sunny has a fully frontal nude scene. And there's Creator/RosannaArquette's Sarah cosplaying as a schoolgirl while on the job.
* {{Fandisservice}}:Sarah propositioning Scudder while she's drunk [[spoiler: and then throwing up on his crotch.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Sunny's]] murder by the villains while Scudder is pursuit, takes place offscreen with only blood splattered over the inside of the rear window.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Downplayed by Sarah...she's a good person, but not sweetness and light [[spoiler: she holds him responsible for getting her friend and fellow call girl Sunny killed]].
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A 1986 American Neo-Noir action thriller directed by Creator/HalAshby that follows an alcoholic former detective (Creator/JeffBridges) stumbling into LA's criminal underworld.
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A 1986 American Neo-Noir action thriller directed by Creator/HalAshby and co-written by Creator/OliverStone that follows an alcoholic former detective (Creator/JeffBridges) stumbling into LA's criminal underworld.
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A 1986 American Neo-Noir action thriller directed by Creator/HalAshby that follows an alcoholic former detective (Creator/JeffBridges) stumbling into LA's criminal underworld.
The movie also stars Creator/RosannaArquette, Creator/AlexandraPaul, Creator/RandyBrooks, Creator/AndyGarcia, Creator/TommyLister, Creator/WilfredoHernandez, Creator/VytoRuginis, and Creator/JamesAvery.
It was released on April 25, 1986.
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* AbandonedWarehouse: A HostageForMacGuffin trade takes place. The BigBad is unaware that there are SWAT officers hiding in the rafters of the apparently empty warehouse.
* CableCarActionSequence: The funicular version involving a gunfight with the BigBad occurs at the end.
* ElevatorActionSequence: An inclined elevator version occurs at the end with the climatic shoot-out taking place on funicular.
The movie also stars Creator/RosannaArquette, Creator/AlexandraPaul, Creator/RandyBrooks, Creator/AndyGarcia, Creator/TommyLister, Creator/WilfredoHernandez, Creator/VytoRuginis, and Creator/JamesAvery.
It was released on April 25, 1986.
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!Tropes for the film:
* AbandonedWarehouse: A HostageForMacGuffin trade takes place. The BigBad is unaware that there are SWAT officers hiding in the rafters of the apparently empty warehouse.
* CableCarActionSequence: The funicular version involving a gunfight with the BigBad occurs at the end.
* ElevatorActionSequence: An inclined elevator version occurs at the end with the climatic shoot-out taking place on funicular.
