Buddy cop film

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The "Buddy Cop" subgenre of buddy films are actions films with plots involving two men of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process. The two men are normally cops, but some films, such as 48 Hrs., that are not about two cops may still be referred to as a Buddy Cop film, or as a member of a larger genre known as Buddy films.[citation needed]

Frequently, although not always, the two heroes are of different ethnicities or cultures. However, regardless of ethnicity, the central difference is normally that one is "wilder" than the other: a hot-tempered iconoclast is paired with a more even-tempered partner. Often the "wilder" partner is the younger of the two, with the even-tempered partner having more patience and experience. These films sometimes also contain a variation on the good cop/bad cop motif, in which one partner is kinder and law-abiding, while the other is a streetwise, "old school" police officer who tends to break (or at least bend) the rules. Another frequent plot device of this genre is for one of the men be removed from his natural element, usually by being forced to operate in a different country. When this is done, the other man acts as a guide to the unfamiliar.

A subgenre of the Buddy Cop film is the Buddy Cop-Dog movie, which teams a cop with a dog, but uses the same element of unlikely partnership to create comedic hijinks. Examples include Turner and Hooch and K-9.

[edit] Origins

Early pioneers to the buddy film/buddy cop genre include the TV series I Spy and Starsky and Hutch, and to a lesser extent, Miami Vice.

Many consider the 1982 film 48 Hrs., starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte, to have started the genre,[citation needed] although Coogan's Bluff, The French Connection and Freebie and the Bean set early precedents.

[edit] Examples

Examples of notable Buddy Cop films are:

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