The Last Boy Scout
Everyone had counted them out. But they're about to get back in the game.
Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered.Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer...if they don't kill each other first.But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.
- Director
- Tony Scott
- Worldwide
- $115M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Last Boy Scout returned 3.9× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $29M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $115M
- Release date
- Dec 13, 1991
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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