While filming "Earth Girls Are Easy" (1988), it took approximately two and a half hours for him and co-stars Jeff Goldblum and Jim Carrey to be suited up as the aliens.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and director John McTiernan join forces again in, THE LAST ACTION HERO, a heart racing thriller in which a young boy uses a magical ticket to infiltrate his favorite movie. Danny (Austin O’Brien) passes through the movie screen and into the whirlwind life of crusader Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger) becoming his sidekick. But when the villains learn that they too can travel back and forth between cinema and reality, it’s up to Jack Slater to put a stop their havoc wreaking.
Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbeck, a disillusioned former Secret Service agent who has hit rock bottom as a detective for hire. His marriage is on the rocks, his adolescent daughter has a smart mouth, he drinks too much, and he’s broke. Hallenbeck takes an assignment protecting Cory (Halle Berry), the stripper girlfriend of Jimmy Dix (Damon Wayans), a former professional football player banned from the league for gambling. When Cory is murdered gangland style, Hallenbeck teams up with the former football hero to find the killers. Their search leads them deep into the world of professional football, politics, legalized gambling and sadistic hitmen. LETHAL WEAPON screenwriter Shane Black wrote the script for this violent, action-packed thriller directed by Tony Scott (TOP GUN, TRUE ROMANCE). Willis plays Hallenbeck with a sadistic glint in his eye and a deathwish. Wayans is convincing as Dix, an athlete who loses everything when he's banned from the game he loves and turns to drugs for consolation.
In a modern-day revision of the classic play "Cyrano de Bergerac," Steve Martin stars as C.D. Bales, the captain of the fire department for a small Colorado town. He's funny, well-liked and has a gigantic nose. C.D. becomes infatuated by Roxanne, a beautiful astronomer, but is hesitant to express himself to her. Meanwhile, she develops a crush on Chris, the new firefighter, who is good-looking but awful around women. So Chris enlists C.D. to compose letters to win over Roxanne. The question becomes, does Roxanne love Chris' body or C.D.'s mind?
A wisecracking, rules-breaking Detroit cop finds himself in Beverly Hills to investigate the murder of a friend and teaches his stiff-necked Beverly Hills counterparts some lessons in the finer arts of police investigation techniques.
