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* WhatTheHellHero: Jack gives one to his ex-wife for marrying a cop on the take.
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* JustifiedCriminal: Mardukas. He stole from the mob and gave the money away to charity. [[spoiler: It's the main reason why Jack lets him go in the end.]]
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* SympatheticCriminal: Mardukas. He stole from the mob and gave the money away to charity. [[spoiler: It's the main reason why Jack lets him go in the end.]]
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* RecycledTheSeries: as a series of {{Made For TV Movie}}s for the ActionPack, starring Christopher [=McDonald=] in the [=DeNiro=] role and various guest-stars as the Grodin-equivalents.
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* RecycledTheSeries: as a series of {{Made For TV Movie}}s for the ActionPack, Creator/ActionPack, starring Christopher [=McDonald=] in the [=DeNiro=] role and various guest-stars as the Grodin-equivalents.
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1988 comedy starring [[RobertDeniro Robert De Niro]] and Charles Grodin. De Niro is Jack Walsh, an (unfairly) disgraced ex-cop turned bounty hunter charged with finding fugitive mob accountant Jonathan Mardukas (Grodin) and returning him to Los Angeles before the deadline expires on his bond. De Niro must go cross-country while fighting a rival bounty hunter, the FBI which is trying to catch Grodin, the Mafia which is trying to kill him, and Grodin, whose eccentricities make him a difficult prisoner.
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1988 comedy starring [[RobertDeniro Robert De Niro]] Creator/RobertDeNiro and Charles Grodin. De Niro is Jack Walsh, an (unfairly) disgraced ex-cop turned bounty hunter charged with finding fugitive mob accountant Jonathan Mardukas (Grodin) and returning him to Los Angeles before the deadline expires on his bond. De Niro must go cross-country while fighting a rival bounty hunter, the FBI which is trying to catch Grodin, the Mafia which is trying to kill him, and Grodin, whose eccentricities make him a difficult prisoner.
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* RaceAgainstTheClockRaceAgainstTheClock: Jack has to get Mardukas back to LA before the expiration date on the bond, or else he doesn't get the money.
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* SweetAndSourGrapes: "It's not a payoff, it's a gift."
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* SweetAndSourGrapes: "It's When they finally get to LAX after all they've been through together, Jack gives up on his dream of a coffee shop, instead letting Mardukas go. Mardukas responds by giving Jack $300K, which he's had the whole time, for the coffee shop.
--> '''Mardukas''': It's not a payoff, it's agift."gift. You already let me go.
--> '''Mardukas''': It's not a payoff, it's a
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* IronWoobie: Jack Walsh
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* EnemyMine: Jack Walsh, Marvin Dorfler and Alonzo Moseley at various points in the movie.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Jack Walsh and Alonzo Moseley
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** Seranno to Walsh: "Does it bother you that another copper's fucking your wife? You know they made this guy a captain?"
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** Seranno Serrano to Walsh: "Does it bother you that another copper's fucking your wife? You know they made this guy a captain?"
* DeathGlare: Mosley to Jack, after this exchange:
--> Moseley: (gloating) "What should be of paramount importance to you right now is that you're going to spend ten years for impersonating a federal agent."
--> Walsh: "Ten years for impersonating a fed?"
--> Moseley: "Ten years!"
--> Walsh: "How come no one's after you?"
** Walsh to Serrano, after Serrano asks how he feels about another man fucking his wife.
--> Moseley: (gloating) "What should be of paramount importance to you right now is that you're going to spend ten years for impersonating a federal agent."
--> Walsh: "Ten years for impersonating a fed?"
--> Moseley: "Ten years!"
--> Walsh: "How come no one's after you?"
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* HiddenDepths: Jack Walsh to Mardukas in a very effective scene when the pair is driving from Chicago to Amarillo. Mardukas realizes after getting a surprisingly honest answer to an ArmorPiercingQuestion that Jack isn't a CorruptCop but rather an honorable, but unfairly disgraced KnightInSourArmor.
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* HiddenDepths: Jack Walsh to Mardukas in a very effective scene when the pair is driving from Chicago to Amarillo. Mardukas realizes after getting a surprisingly honest answer to an ArmorPiercingQuestion that Jack isn't a CorruptCop but rather an honorable, but unfairly disgraced KnightInSourArmor.
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** "What happened to you?"
** Seranno to Walsh: "Does it bother you that another copper's fucking your wife? You know they made this guy a captain?"
** Seranno to Walsh: "Does it bother you that another copper's fucking your wife? You know they made this guy a captain?"
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* DisappearedDad: Jack Walsh to his family after being run out of Chicago. See TearJerker below.on YMMV.
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Jerry]] is constantly tipping off [[TheMafia the mob hit men]] as to Walsh's location.
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* NothingPersonal: Marvin says this to Jack right after swooping in to take Jack's hard-won bounty at the beginning.
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* OhCrap: When Jack realizes that [[spoiler: Marvin]] is planning to give Mardukas to the mob.
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** Jack and Marvin, usually after knocking the other person out: "See you in L.A., Jack!/Marvin!"
*** With a CallBack to Moseley's kleptomania at the end. "Yeah, watch your cigarettes with this guy, Jack."
*** With a CallBack to Moseley's kleptomania at the end. "Yeah, watch your cigarettes with this guy, Jack."
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* TearJerker: Jack, visiting his family for the first time in nine years to ask his ex-wife for money. At first it's assumed Jack is just a [[DisappearedDaddeadbeat dad]] who ran out on them and is intruding on his family's new, better life without him. When he leaves again his daughter runs after him and tries to give him all her babysitting money to help him out. On the verge of tears, he tells her he can't take it and that he loves her. The look on their faces as he drives off makes it painfully obvious that leaving the first time was not his choice, and it's killing him to do it again.
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* DisappearedDad: Jack Walsh to his family after being run out of Chicago. See TearJerker below.
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* HiddenDepths: Jack Walsh to Mardukas in a very effective scene when the pair are is driving from Chicago to Amarillo. Mardukas realizes after getting a surprisingly honest answer to an ArmorPiercingQuestion that Jack isn't a CorruptCop but rather an honorable, but unfairly disgraced KnightInSourArmor.
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* NiceGuy: Jonathan Mardukas. He's an accountant, has a wife who he loves, a loyal dog, tries not to swear, shows respect even to those who don't return it, and can say hello in many different languages.
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* TearJerker: Jack, visiting his family for the first time in nine years to ask his ex-wife for money. At first it's assumed Jack is just a [[DisappearedDaddeadbeat dad]] who ran out on them and is intruding on his family's new, better life without him. When he leaves again his daughter runs after him and tries to give him all her babysitting money to help him out. On the verge of tears, he tells her he can't take it and that he loves her. The look on their faces as he drives off makes it painfully obvious that leaving the first time was not his choice, and it's killing him to do it again.
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** The entire movie is a carpet [[FBomb F-Bombing]] campaign. There is hardly a scene where it isn't dropped, repeatedly.
--> "If I hear any more shit outta you, I'm gonna bust your fuckin' head, put you back in that fuckin' hole, stick your head in the fuckin' toilet bowl, and make it stay there!"
--> "If I hear any more shit outta you, I'm gonna bust your fuckin' head, put you back in that fuckin' hole, stick your head in the fuckin' toilet bowl, and make it stay there!"
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* HiddenDepths: Jack Walsh to Mardukas in a very effective scene when the pair are driving from Chicago to Amarillo. Mardukas realizes after an ArmorPiercingQuestion that Jack isn't a CorruptCop but rather an honorable, but unfairly disgraced KnightInSourArmor.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Mardukas is generally pleasant and refrains from swearing, but after his attempt to explain his actions and plead for his life results in Walsh brushing him off, he drops one.
--> Mardukas: "I'm in your way? I'm in your way? What you mean is you want the money for turning me in because that's all you're about. You're just about the fucking money!"
--> Mardukas: "I'm in your way? I'm in your way? What you mean is you want the money for turning me in because that's all you're about. You're just about the fucking money!"
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** Jack and Moseley, and the sunglasses. "Gee, I've been looking all over for these! Thanks, Alonzo!"
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* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler: Jack and Mardukas, duh. Jack gets the Duke to LA before midnight on Friday, as he'd promised he would, but then lets Mardukas go without any prospect of reward. Mardukas is so touched that he gives Jack the $300,000 he'd been carrying all along as travel money.]]
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* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler: Jack and Mardukas, duh. Jack gets the Duke to LA before midnight on Friday, as he'd promised he would, but then lets Mardukas go without any prospect of reward. Mardukas is so touched that he gives Jack the $300,000 he'd been carrying all along as travel money.]]
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* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler: Jack and Mardukas, duh. Jack gets the Duke to LA before midnight on Friday, as he'd promised he would, but then lets Mardukas go without any prospect of reward. Mardukas is so touched that he gives Jack the $300,000 he'd been carrying all along as travel money.]]
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* ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster: Mardukas, to the point that he deserves to be a TropeCodifier. Firstly, he convinces Jack that he has a fear of flying by having an extravagant freak-out on an airliner, thereby obliging them to travel from New York to LA over land. He then uses the time he's gained behaving like an apparently hapless dweeb but at the same time asking Jack [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Armor Piercing Questions]], offering him genuinely useful advice and otherwise befriending him, to the point that when they finally arrive at their destination, [[spoiler: Jack has become so fond of Mardukas that he lets him go.]]
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* ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster: Mardukas, to the point that he deserves to be a TropeCodifier. Firstly, he convinces Jack that he has a fear of flying by having an extravagant freak-out on an airliner, thereby obliging them to travel from New York to LA over land. He then uses makes the most of the time he's gained by making Jack drop his guard, firstly by behaving like an apparently hapless dweeb dweeb, but at the same time asking Jack [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Armor Piercing Questions]], offering him genuinely useful advice advice, and otherwise befriending him, to the point that when they finally arrive at their destination, [[spoiler: Jack has become so fond of Mardukas that he lets him go.]]
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* ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster: Mardukas, to the point that he deserves to be a TropeCodifier. Firstly, he convinces Jack that he has a fear of flying by having an extravagant freak-out on an airliner, thereby obliging them to travel from New York to LA over land. He then uses the time he's gained behaving like an apparently hapless dweeb but at the same time asking Jack [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Armor Piercing Questions]], offering him genuinely useful advice and otherwise befriending him, to the point that when they finally arrive at their destination, [[spoiler: Jack has become so fond of Mardukas that he lets him go.]]
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* EverybodySmokesEverybodySmokes: Played straight with most of the characters, especially Jack, who lights up every chance he can get in late 80s America, and there are plenty; averted with Mardukas, who not only doesn't smoke but urges Jack to put his cigarette out for the sake of his health.
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* AuthenticationByNewspaperAuthenticationByNewspaper: Marvin does this to prove to the mob that he's got Mardukas. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, he photographed Mardukas holding the newspaper with the towels from the motel where they're staying clearly visible, and since the towels clearly have the motel's name on them, it's easy for the mobsters to get Mardukas without having to pay Marvin.]]
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* SympatheticCriminal: Mardukas.
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* SympatheticCriminal: Mardukas. He stole from the mob and gave the money away to charity. [[spoiler: It's the main reason why Jack lets him go in the end.]]
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** Alonzo Mosley has a habit of taking things off the people he's interrogating / intimidating and 'forgetting' to return them. He confiscates Jack's sunglasses at one point and makes a habit of stealing Marvin's cigarettes.
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** Alonzo Mosley Moseley has a habit of taking things off the people he's interrogating / intimidating and 'forgetting' to return them. He confiscates Jack's sunglasses at one point and makes a habit of stealing Marvin's cigarettes.cigarettes.
** Jack having stolen Moseley's FBI ID early on, he keeps using it to (mis)identify himself and get away with stuff, and Moseley keeps running into people who think that Jack's real name is Alonzo Moseley.
** Jack having stolen Moseley's FBI ID early on, he keeps using it to (mis)identify himself and get away with stuff, and Moseley keeps running into people who think that Jack's real name is Alonzo Moseley.
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-->'''Walsh''': You're God damn right I do, so here come two for you; "shut the fuck up".
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-->'''Walsh''': You're God damn right I do, so here come two for you; "shut you, 'Shut the fuck up".up'.
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* HairpinLockpick: Averted. Jack picks locks using a tension bar and a snapper pick, one of the very few realistic depictions of lockpicking in a Hollywood film.
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* MiscarriageOfJustice: Walsh is a bounty hunter because he was framed for being a DirtyCop.
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* MiscarriageOfJustice: Walsh is a bounty hunter because he was framed for being as a DirtyCop.DirtyCop, which he wasn't.
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-->Jonathan Mardukas: You're OK, Jack. I think... under different circumstances you and I probably still would have hated each other!
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-->Jonathan Mardukas: You're OK, Jack. I think... think . . . under different circumstances you and I probably still would have hated each other! other.
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** Jack constantly tricking Marvin, knocking him unconscious and stealing/borrowing his stuff.
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* TapOnTheHeadTapOnTheHead: Jack, Marvin and Serrano's goons seem to have a gift with knocking people unconscious with a single punch to the face.
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* BailEqualsFreedom: Used a few times in the sequels, where Jack gets in trouble with local law enforcement and then posts bail. Egregious because the main character's job is to hunt down bail jumpers and bring them back to Los Angeles for prosecution, so they really should know better.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Walsh and Mardukas pretend to be FBI agents so they can "confiscate some counterfeit money".
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** Jack keeps forgetting his watch is broken and checking it.
** Alonzo Mosley has a habit of taking things off the people he's interrogating / intimidating and 'forgetting' to return them. He confiscates Jack's sunglasses at one point and makes a habit of stealing Marvin's cigarettes.
** Jack keeps forgetting his watch is broken and checking it.
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* HollywoodLaw: Sure, Walsh helps the FBI nab Jimmy Serrano, but it still seems unlikely that he'd face no legal consequences whatsoever for impersonating an FBI agent, interfering with an FBI investigation, grand theft auto, and [[spoiler: letting Mardukas go]].
** To be fair, [[spoiler: the FBI didn't really need Mardukas at that point. They only needed him to take down Serrano. They've got enough evidence on him now that they don't need the Duke.]]
** We also don't know that he DIDN'T get into trouble after the final credits rolled. Alonzo Mosely kept his end of the bargain to let Jack bring Mardukis in himself to collect the reward. We don't know that he didn't get arrested later. As for letting Mardukis go...he could simply say that he escaped.
** To be fair, [[spoiler: the FBI didn't really need Mardukas at that point. They only needed him to take down Serrano. They've got enough evidence on him now that they don't need the Duke.]]
** We also don't know that he DIDN'T get into trouble after the final credits rolled. Alonzo Mosely kept his end of the bargain to let Jack bring Mardukis in himself to collect the reward. We don't know that he didn't get arrested later. As for letting Mardukis go...he could simply say that he escaped.
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A very entertaining film, and one of De Niro's first comedies, back when Robert De Niro in a comedy was interesting and not a sign of BadassDecay.
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1988 comedy starring [[RobertDeniro Robert De Niro]] and Charles Grodin. De Niro is Jack Walsh, an (unfairly) disgraced ex-cop turned bounty hunter charged with finding fugitive mob accountant Jonathan Mardukas (Grodin) and returning him to Los Angeles before the deadline expires on his bond. De Niro must go cross-country while fighting a rival bounty hunter, the FBI which is trying to catch Grodin, the Mafia which is trying to kill him, and Grodin, whose eccentricities make him a difficult prisoner.
A very entertaining film, and one of De Niro's first comedies, back when Robert De Niro in a comedy was interesting and not a sign of BadassDecay.
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!!Tropes in this film:
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Why aren't you popular with the Chicago Police Department?"
* AuthenticationByNewspaper
* BavarianFireDrill: Walsh and Mardukas pretend to be FBI agents so they can "confiscate some counterfeit money".
* BountyHunter
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Grodin's rant about plane crashes was heavily edited for airplane showings of the movie, for obvious reasons.
* ChainedHeat
* ClusterFBomb: Jack's a pottymouth. So are Eddie Moscone and Jimmy Serrano.
* TheConsigliere: Serrano's advisor Sidney, whose advice Jimmy frequently disregards.
* CuffsOffRubWrists: Apparently Grodin suffered permanent scarring from the handcuffs.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: Even in 1988, $1000 bills had been out of circulation for twenty years.
* EverybodySmokes
* FiveFiveFive: "[=KL5=]"
* HollywoodLaw: Sure, Walsh helps the FBI nab Jimmy Serrano, but it still seems unlikely that he'd face no legal consequences whatsoever for impersonating an FBI agent, interfering with an FBI investigation, grand theft auto, and [[spoiler: letting Mardukas go]].
** To be fair, [[spoiler: the FBI didn't really need Mardukas at that point. They only needed him to take down Serrano. They've got enough evidence on him now that they don't need the Duke.]]
** We also don't know that he DIDN'T get into trouble after the final credits rolled. Alonzo Mosely kept his end of the bargain to let Jack bring Mardukis in himself to collect the reward. We don't know that he didn't get arrested later. As for letting Mardukis go...he could simply say that he escaped.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Walsh impersonates an FBI agent.
* LookBehindYou: Walsh gets Marvin with this [[RunningGag repeatedly]]. Until [[CryingWolf the one time it's for real]].
* TheMafia
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Walsh is a bounty hunter because he was framed for being a DirtyCop.
* NotSoDifferent:
-->Jonathan Mardukas: You're OK, Jack. I think... under different circumstances you and I probably still would have hated each other!
* OddCouple
* OneLastJob: Walsh hopes to collect the large bounty from apprehending Mardukas and open a coffee shop.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Walsh realizes Eddie's phone is tapped and starts giving false information over it to mock the agents listening in.
-->Jack Walsh: Where am I? I'm in Boise, Idaho; no, no, no, wait a minute: I'm in Anchorage, Alaska. No, no, wait: I'm in Casper, Wyoming; I'm in the lobby of a Howard Johnson's and I'm wearing a pink carnation.
* PoliceAreUseless: Man, let's hope the FBI isn't as incompetent as it comes off in this movie.
* RaceAgainstTheClock
* RecycledTheSeries: as a series of {{Made For TV Movie}}s for the ActionPack, starring Christopher [=McDonald=] in the [=DeNiro=] role and various guest-stars as the Grodin-equivalents.
* TheRival: Marvin to Jack.
* RoadMovie
* SweetAndSourGrapes: "It's not a payoff, it's a gift."
* SympatheticCriminal: Mardukas.
* TapOnTheHead
* ThoseTwoGuys: Tony and Joey, the two {{Mooks}} who work for Serrano. Serrano himself refers to them as "Moron Number One" and "Moron Number Two".
* TitleDrop
* TwoWordsObviousTrope: Walsh is getting annoyed by Mardukas' nagging, leading to the following exchange.
-->'''Mardukas''': Jack, you're a grown man. You have control over your own words.
-->'''Walsh''': You're God damn right I do, so here come two for you; "shut the fuck up".
* VivaLasVegas: setting for the climax.
* WorkingTheSameCase: Walsh and the FBI.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Walsh has fallen into a raging river. Mardukas extends a helping hand but says "Promise to let me go." Walsh agrees and Mardukas pulls him out. Walsh slaps the handcuffs on Mardukas and says he'll let Mardukas go when Mardukas is back in jail.
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1988 comedy starring [[RobertDeniro Robert De Niro]] and Charles Grodin. De Niro is Jack Walsh, an (unfairly) disgraced ex-cop turned bounty hunter charged with finding fugitive mob accountant Jonathan Mardukas (Grodin) and returning him to Los Angeles before the deadline expires on his bond. De Niro must go cross-country while fighting a rival bounty hunter, the FBI which is trying to catch Grodin, the Mafia which is trying to kill him, and Grodin, whose eccentricities make him a difficult prisoner.
A very entertaining film, and one of De Niro's first comedies, back when Robert De Niro in a comedy was interesting and not a sign of BadassDecay.
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!!Tropes in this film:
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Why aren't you popular with the Chicago Police Department?"
* AuthenticationByNewspaper
* BavarianFireDrill: Walsh and Mardukas pretend to be FBI agents so they can "confiscate some counterfeit money".
* BountyHunter
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Grodin's rant about plane crashes was heavily edited for airplane showings of the movie, for obvious reasons.
* ChainedHeat
* ClusterFBomb: Jack's a pottymouth. So are Eddie Moscone and Jimmy Serrano.
* TheConsigliere: Serrano's advisor Sidney, whose advice Jimmy frequently disregards.
* CuffsOffRubWrists: Apparently Grodin suffered permanent scarring from the handcuffs.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: Even in 1988, $1000 bills had been out of circulation for twenty years.
* EverybodySmokes
* FiveFiveFive: "[=KL5=]"
* HollywoodLaw: Sure, Walsh helps the FBI nab Jimmy Serrano, but it still seems unlikely that he'd face no legal consequences whatsoever for impersonating an FBI agent, interfering with an FBI investigation, grand theft auto, and [[spoiler: letting Mardukas go]].
** To be fair, [[spoiler: the FBI didn't really need Mardukas at that point. They only needed him to take down Serrano. They've got enough evidence on him now that they don't need the Duke.]]
** We also don't know that he DIDN'T get into trouble after the final credits rolled. Alonzo Mosely kept his end of the bargain to let Jack bring Mardukis in himself to collect the reward. We don't know that he didn't get arrested later. As for letting Mardukis go...he could simply say that he escaped.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Walsh impersonates an FBI agent.
* LookBehindYou: Walsh gets Marvin with this [[RunningGag repeatedly]]. Until [[CryingWolf the one time it's for real]].
* TheMafia
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Walsh is a bounty hunter because he was framed for being a DirtyCop.
* NotSoDifferent:
-->Jonathan Mardukas: You're OK, Jack. I think... under different circumstances you and I probably still would have hated each other!
* OddCouple
* OneLastJob: Walsh hopes to collect the large bounty from apprehending Mardukas and open a coffee shop.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Walsh realizes Eddie's phone is tapped and starts giving false information over it to mock the agents listening in.
-->Jack Walsh: Where am I? I'm in Boise, Idaho; no, no, no, wait a minute: I'm in Anchorage, Alaska. No, no, wait: I'm in Casper, Wyoming; I'm in the lobby of a Howard Johnson's and I'm wearing a pink carnation.
* PoliceAreUseless: Man, let's hope the FBI isn't as incompetent as it comes off in this movie.
* RaceAgainstTheClock
* RecycledTheSeries: as a series of {{Made For TV Movie}}s for the ActionPack, starring Christopher [=McDonald=] in the [=DeNiro=] role and various guest-stars as the Grodin-equivalents.
* TheRival: Marvin to Jack.
* RoadMovie
* SweetAndSourGrapes: "It's not a payoff, it's a gift."
* SympatheticCriminal: Mardukas.
* TapOnTheHead
* ThoseTwoGuys: Tony and Joey, the two {{Mooks}} who work for Serrano. Serrano himself refers to them as "Moron Number One" and "Moron Number Two".
* TitleDrop
* TwoWordsObviousTrope: Walsh is getting annoyed by Mardukas' nagging, leading to the following exchange.
-->'''Mardukas''': Jack, you're a grown man. You have control over your own words.
-->'''Walsh''': You're God damn right I do, so here come two for you; "shut the fuck up".
* VivaLasVegas: setting for the climax.
* WorkingTheSameCase: Walsh and the FBI.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Walsh has fallen into a raging river. Mardukas extends a helping hand but says "Promise to let me go." Walsh agrees and Mardukas pulls him out. Walsh slaps the handcuffs on Mardukas and says he'll let Mardukas go when Mardukas is back in jail.
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