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Turner & Hooch ***½ (1989, Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3824

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Tom Hanks stars in Roger Spottiswoode’s sweet and amusing, sit-up-and-beg-to-love-me 1989 comedy as meticulous and fastidious cop Detective Scott Turner who investigates a brutal murder with the help of a big, messy mutt called Hooch (Beasley the dog), a French mastiff.

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Written by Dennis Shryack, Michael Blodgett (screenplay and story), Daniel Petrie Jnr, Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jnr (screenplay), this is a genially amiable, broadly comic, odd-couple buddy caper. Hanks unleashes lots of laughs and proves that he is a pedigree performer, while the slobbering dog is huggably revolting or possibly revoltingly huggable.

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When the messy and uneven screenplay eventually runs out of steam, Hanks’s charming personality and comic dynamism keep the movie going, though his co-star Mare Winningham doesn’t get much of a look in as Hanks’s veterinarian love interest, Dr Emily Carson. Both Hanks and Beasley are pretty darned cute and adorable. They make a lovely screen (odd) couple.

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Also in the cast are Craig T Nelson as Chief Howard Hyde, Reginald VelJohnson as Detective David Sutton, Scott Paulin, J C Quinn and John McIntire.

it is a PG but the TV version makes minor cuts for language (‘bastard’, ‘crap’, ‘shit’ and ‘Christ’).

© Derek Winnert 2016 Classic Movie Review 3824

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