20 Buddy Cop Movies Worth Seeing Again

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Turner & Hooch (1989)
Turner & Hooch (1989)
Scott Turner (Tom Hanks) is only days away from leaving the department -- a play on the buddy cop stand-by of the veteran officer being close to retirement, of course -- until a local man is killed and Hanks is forced to "partner" with the dead guy's dog, Hooch.

While the genre's been compacted into a cliche over the years (especially immediately following its heyday in the late '80s and early '90s), and also justly satirized for it, the fundamentals of the buddy cop film return each summer to theaters.



Here are twenty films from the genre that's been a mainstay in theaters and weekend cable programming. By Voice Film Club.




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