Lethal Weapon
If these two can learn to stand each other... the bad guys don't stand a chance.
A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces.
- Director
- Richard Donner
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Action
- Worldwide
- $120M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Lethal Weapon actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces.
Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Lethal Weapon appears in 1 Nutevio collection. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Best Detective Movies Ranked #37
Placed at #37 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
The record
Awards
0 wins · 1 nomination
Academy Awards
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Sound
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Lethal Weapon returned 8.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $15M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $120M
- Release date
- Mar 6, 1987
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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