Turner & Hooch

July. 28,1989      PG
Rating:
6.2
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Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some 'real' cases—not just misdemeanors. When Amos Reed is murdered, Scott sets himself on the case, but the closest thing to a witness to the murder is Reed's dog, Hooch, which Scott has to take care of—to avoid Hooch being 'put to sleep'.

Tom Hanks as  Scott Turner
Mare Winningham as  Emily Carson
Craig T. Nelson as  Howard Hyde
Scott Paulin as  Zack Gregory
John McIntire as  Amos Reed
David Knell as  Ernie
Reginald VelJohnson as  Det. David Sutton
Mary McCusker as  Katie
Linda Eve Miller as  Mrs. Pine
Jules Sylvester as  Animal Control Man

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Reviews

Linbeymusol
1989/07/28

Wonderful character development!

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Afouotos
1989/07/29

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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ThedevilChoose
1989/07/30

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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Rio Hayward
1989/07/31

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Ian
1989/08/01

(Flash Review)Yes. Yes I did watch Turner & Hooch. This is not a joke. My expectations were hoping it would be better than Hot To Trot (Loooow Bar) and thankfully, it exceeded that by a rather larger margin. This is actually an OK movie and from a dog I found utterly gross from the start, by the end I sort of cared what happened to him. Hanks plays a detective about to move up in the world from a small local police department to big city action. He is a hyper rules follower, obsessed by order and cleanliness and very detail oriented. So of course by a certain circumstances, he ends up in possession of an old, large, slobbering and bull in a China shop hound with a bossy personality. The plot revolves around a local murder and the dog a key player in case. To what degree and how absurdly will the hound pester Hanks? Will he feed Hanks some clues to the case? The dog and Hanks surprisingly built a believable friendship however, there were too many scenes with Hanks in jock strap sized, Italian, Euro underwear. Overall, not as bad as one would expect.

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nasimgolestani
1989/08/02

"Turner and Hooch" was an enlivening comedy makes us laugh loudly. It was a prize for me. Tom Hanks played its role admirably. However, when heroism is largely exaggerated, it loses its real influence. At the end of the film, when protagonist the dog, while dying, saves the life of Tom Hanks in the way of "the water margin", the viewer wants to cover her/himself with blanket, stop hearing and hug her/his hands and legs. The other issue in the film is the scene when Tom Hanks cuts a piece of meat into small pieces in a comical way with a tool like axes and gives it to dog, although the dog prevents eating. A question arises to my mind: why the blood of dog is not of one color? Because it is faithful? Because we can show the feeling of subjection in association with this beast and meanwhile keep calm and kind and kind-hearted? Why protests against killing of the other animals and using of their meat in a large amount and continuously, is extensively inconsiderable in comparison with protests against killing and hurting of dog? Because their meat is more delicious? Because dog is faithful and helpful in another way?

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FilmBuff1994
1989/08/03

Turner And Hooch is a great movie with a great story line,a pretty good cast,other than Tom Hanks who is fantastic,and of course an amazing performance from Hooch,a big and dangerous,but extremely lovable dog.I will admit,I don't usually cry watching movies,but I cried watching this,at the end when Hooch dies,its one of the only scenes in a movie that really made me cry,Scott and Hooch develop such a close relationship,the dog became his,and then hes gone,you see the emotion in Tom Hanks,its truly one of the saddest scenes id ever seen in a movie.Detective Scott Turner (Tom Hanks) investigates when a close friend of his is murdered,and adopts his dog Hooch,a trouble causing Mastiff,who is the only witness of the murder.

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djbabu_30
1989/08/04

Detective Scott Turner (Tom Hanks) is a very tidy unusual man. During his last days of work before being transferred, his old friend Amos Reed (John McIntire) has been murdered and the only witness is a rough big dog named Hooch. Scott decides then to take care of the case believing that Amos's dog it will help him to find the killer and apparently many other hidden businesses. Scott has no choice, he's forced to bring Hooch to his house and from that moment his life will change completely. The scary, naughty dog will become his best friend and Scott will finally get to learn a new way of living. Young Tom Hanks gives a truly funny performance,and the dog is absolutely hilarious.

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