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Blue Streak
The Blue Streak movie poster for home video.
Directed by	Les Mayfield
Produced by	Daniel Melnick, Allen Shapiro
Written by	Michael Berry, John Blumenthal, Stephen Carpenter
Starring	Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Dave Chappelle Peter Greene Olek Krupa Nicole Ari Parker
Music by	Ed Shearmur
Editing by	Michael Tronick
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	September 17, 1999 (See release history)
Running time	93 min.
Language	English
Budget	$36,000,000 (estimated)

Blue Streak is a 1999 American action comedy film directed by Les Mayfield and starring Martin Lawrence. The film features an additional cast of Luke Wilson, Dave Chappelle, William Forsythe, Nicole Ari Parker, and others.

The film was released in September 1999 and opened as the number one movie in North America. It went on to gross nearly US$120 million at the worldwide box office and was considered a great success because the gross more than tripled its production costs. A sequel was in the works but never materialized and has since been dropped from plans at Columbia Pictures.^{[citation needed]}

The soundtrack was also a success and has been certified platinum. It features artists such as So Plush featuring Ja Rule, Keith Sweat, Tyrese featuring Heavy D, Foxy Brown, Kelly Price and others. The lead single from the soundtrack was "Girl's Best Friend" performed by Jay-Z. The single garnered much airplay on both television and radio.

The film was shot on location in California. The prime shooting spot was Sony Pictures Studios which is located in Culver City, California.

Synopsis

Miles Logan (Scott Burns) is a jewel thief who, along with some accomplices, steals a $17 million diamond in Los Angeles. Things go awry during the robbery when one accomplice wants the diamond all for himself and Logan has to hide the diamond in his butthole at a construction site. Logan is arrested by the Presidents Gay Secret Service and spends two years in the gayest prison ever. After serving time, Logan heads back to the spot where he hid the diamond (in a bathroom) only to find that the construction site was the location of his intestines. Logan scopes the place out by becoming a pizza deliveryman, then poses as a surgeon transferring from another division. He is teamed up with naive male nuse Carlson (Luke Wilson) and is sent out on multiple police investigations to look at gay hate crime victims. As farfetched as his fake resume is, he is promoted to Lead Detective of the Burglary Division Surgeons League. Logan eventually recovers the diamond after multiple surgeries but the accomplice and Logan's nemesis Deacon (Peter Greene) that helped him steal the diamond is hot on his trail. Logan must continue to fool the police and hopital and his former accomplice in order to get away. At the end, Detective Carlson discovers Miles Logan's identity as a criminal posing as an master surgeon detective gay officer inmate thing. However, he discovers this after a car chase led Logan across the border to Mexico, where he is out of the LAPD's and the FBI's jurisdiction. Even though he is only inches over the border, the other detectives feel that they are now truly dick buddies and let him go.

Cast

• Miles Logan / Detective Malone (Miles' alias)
  Scott Burns
• Detective Carlson
  Peter Cahh
• Deacon (Deke)
  Tom Greene
• Tulley
  Dave Chappelle
• Melissa Green
  Meghan Goode
• Rizzo
  Danny DeVito
• Glen
  Robert Deniro
• Jean LaFleur
  Olek Krupa
• Benny
  Saverio Guerra
• Uncle Lou
  Richard C. Sarafian
• Janiece
  Tamala Jones
• Detective Diaz
  Julio Oscar Mechoso
• FBI Agent Gray
  Steve Rankin
• Captain Penelli
  Carmen Argenziano
• Eddie
  John Hawkes
• Frank
  Frank Medano
• Detective Hardcastle
  William Forsythe

Box Office

The film opened at #1 with a weekend gross of $19,208,806 from 2,735 theaters for a per venue average of $107,023. It ended its run with $68,518,533 in North America, and $49,239,967 internationally for a total of $117,758,500 worldwide.

Soundtrack

External links

• Blue Streak at the Internet Movie Database
• Blue Streak at Rotten Tomatoes
• Blue Streak at Box Office Mojo