Main Cast: Damon Wayans, Adam Sandler, James Caan, Kristen Wilson
Release Year: 1996
Country: US
Run Time: 84 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
This post-modern comic variation on The Defiant Ones concerns Keats (Damon Wayans), an undercover police detective trying to get the goods on crime kingpin Frank Colton (James Caan). Keats poses as a crook to make friends with one of Colton's underlings, a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses (Adam Sandler). Keats is using Archie as part of a sting operation to put Colton away; however, Archie doesn't care for this, and when he finds out Keats's true plan and actual identity, it leads to an altercation that ends with Archie shooting Keats in the head. Several months later, Keats emerges from the hospital with a metal plate in his skull, and he has to bring Archie in. However, now Archie and Keats are both on Colton's enemies list, and the two find themselves on the run in Arizona, trying to outwit Colton's team of assassins, but having Archie on hand doesn't do much good in the outwitting department. Bulletproof was directed by Ernest Dickerson, who got his start as a cinematographer for Spike Lee. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Xander Berkeley - Daryll Gentry; James Farentino - Capt. Will Jensen; Larry McCoy - Detective Sulliman; Bill Nunn - Finch; Jeep Swenson - Bledsoe; Allen Covert - Detective Jones; Mark Roberts - Charles; Garret Sato - Bad Guy
Credit
William Matthews - Art Director, Perry Andelin Blake - Art Director, Joanna Colbert - Casting, Ira Shuman - Co-producer, Jack Giarraputo - Co-producer, Marie France - Costume Designer, Jono Oliver - First Assistant Director, Ernest R. Dickerson - Director, George Folsey, Jr. - Editor, Eric L. Gold - Executive Producer, Bernie Brillstein - Executive Producer, Brad Grey - Executive Producer, Sandy Wernick - Executive Producer, Elmer Bernstein - Composer (Music Score), Elmer Bernstein - Songwriter, Steven Bernstein - Cinematographer, Robert Simonds - Producer, Jim Stuebe - Sound/Sound Designer, Lewis Colick - Screenwriter, Joe Gayton - Screenwriter
Archie Moses (Adam Sandler) is a small time crook working for a large drug importer and car dealer Frank Colton (James Caan). He is unaware that his best friend Rock Keats (Damon Wayans) is an undercover cop, actually named Jack Carter, seeking evidence against Colton. During a raid on Colton's warehouse, Archie accidentally shoots Jack in the head but he miraculously survives and makes a full recovery. Archie then flees the state, and is subsequently arrested later. Jack is assigned the task of returning Archie to testify against Colton.
