Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Lolita Davidovich, Keith David, Gladys Knight, Master P, Dwight Yoakam, Eric Idle, Robert Wagner, Kurupt, Smokey Robinson, Lou Diamond Phillips, Martin Landau, as well as André Benjamin star in Hollywood Homicide, a 2003 American action comedy movie featuring Harrison Ford as well as Josh Hartnett. Ron Shelton directed it, and Lou Pitt produced it. Shelton and Robert Souza wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the true story of Souza, who’s worked as a murder investigator inside the LAPD’s Hollywood Division for eleven years before leaving to work as a real estate broker.
Wayne Fitzgerald created the title sequence for the film, which is his final title sequence before his death in September 2019.
Sergeant Joe Gavilan is indeed a cash-strapped murder investigator of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division. For the past seven years, he has worked as more than just a real estate agent on the side. K. C. Calden, a very much younger investigator that teaches yoga upon that side as well as aspires to be an actress, is his current partner. The partners are looking into the shooting deaths of four members of such a rap group “H2OClick” in such a nightclub by two unidentified gunmen. The investigators find that a witness has escaped and are working to locate him.
As Gavilan deals with an impending real estate deal that might be the key to getting out of debt, Calden chases his ambitions of acting by attempting to get discovered by talent agencies, they are preoccupied and fail to bond as partners.
However, H2OClick’s manager, Antoine Sartain, had his head of security assassinate the two hitmen he originally hired to assassinate H2OClick, as well as a rapper named Klepto, which Sartain also manages.
Gavilan and Calden assume the murders are gang-related, however when Calden sees the bodies of such hitmen there at the morgue, he believes the killings were planned.
The investigators also observed parallels between the H2OClick as well as Klepto murders. An undercover cop informs Gavilan about H2OClick’s songwriter, a man named K-Ro, who has mysteriously vanished, prompting Gavilan to suspect he is their murder witness. They try to find K-Ro until they discover his true identity: Oliver Robideaux, the son of the former Motown diva Olivia Robideaux.
Lieutenant Bernard “Bennie” Macko of Internal Affairs comes just at a station in the meantime. Macko as well as Gavilan had a tumultuous past, with Gavilan humiliating Macko years ago following proving him incorrect on a case.
The fact that Gavilan’s most recent love interest, a psychic called Ruby, used it to date Macko adds to the enmity. Macko is hell-bent on destroying Gavilan, even going as far as to frame them as well as interrogate both investigators. However, it just helps to enhance Gavilan and Calden’s relationship. Officer Danny Calden was shot dead throughout a covert operation gone horribly wrong, with his partner, Officer Leroy Wasley, being implicated but eventually released due to a lack of evidence. Gavilan offers to help Calden with the case of his father’s death; Officer Danny Calden had already been shot to death throughout a sting operation gone wrong, with his partner, Officer Leroy Wasley, getting implicated and although later released due to the lack of proof.
The partners locate down K-Ro and take him to his house, where Olivia claims her son is innocent and also that manager Sartain is the true bad guy.
For years, Sartain had been defrauding clients such as Klepto, H2OClick, and others. When Klepto and H2OClick learned of this, they threatened to hire attorneys to have their contracts terminated, prompting Sartain’s head of security to employ the hitmen as a “lesson” to all of his clients. Wasley is also revealed to be Sartain’s security head, and Macko is working for him.
Gavilan enlists Ruby’s aid after the partners are unable to find Sartain and Wasley. She leads the two investigators to a clothes boutique using her telepathic abilities. Sartain and Wasley happened to be driving by at the time, and Gavilan and Calden chased them down in a chaotic automobile pursuit.
The four men finish the chase on foot, with the two partners following the two criminals in opposite directions. When Gavilan and Sartain fight, Sartain falls to his death from the top of a structure. Wasley has drawn his revolver on Calden and boasts loudly about assassinating his father. Calden uses his acting abilities to distract Wasley, render him unconscious, and disclose that he was listening to a tape recorder the entire time. As LAPD cops rush the scene, Gavilan and Calden reconnect, but Macko emerges and demands that the two officers be arrested. Macko, on the other hand, gets arrested for his role in the cover-up of Sartain and Wasley’s crimes.
Gavilan and Ruby have been seen during a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire, wherein Calden is the leading actor. Gavilan is said to have closed the real estate transaction, as well as Calden is putting his heart and soul into his acting career. Both of them, meanwhile, receive phone calls with police headquarters and leave the performance inside the middle of it, firm partners now.
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