Top Dog (1995) Synopsis & Summary

Synopsis

In this action comedy, renegade cop Jake Wilder investigates the death of his old friend, Lou Swanson, another cop, who was killed while investigating the bombing of a San Diego housing project. To solve the murder and stop the bomber, Wilder teams up with Swanson's partner, a German Shepherd named Reno. At first the new partners do not get along, but eventually they begin working as a team and discover that the culprit was a white-supremacist group. This film stirred up a lot of controversy when it first came out as the distributors exhibited remarkably bad judgment by releasing it two weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing of a Federal building that resulted in the death of close to two hundred innocent people, some of them small children. - Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Movie Info

Starring:
Chuck Norris, Clyde Kusatsu, Michele Lamar Richards, Peter S. Moore, Erik Von Detten
Theatrical Release Date:
04/28/1995
DVD Release Date:
02/20/2001
Rating:
PG-13
MPAA Reasons:
for shootings and martial arts violence.
Run Time:
85 min.
Production Co.:
MGM/United Artists
Director(s):
Aaron Norris
Genre(s):
Comedy, Action
Themes:
Man's Best Friend, Murder Investigations
Tone:
Humorous, Light, Rousing
Keywords:
animal, bomb, discrimination, dog, friendship, investigation, investigator, killing, murder, partner, racism, white-supremacy
Setting:
housing project
Language:
English
Status:
DVD

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