Themes: Down on Their Luck, Doctors and Patients, Going Undercover
Main Cast: Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bullock, José Zuñiga, Richard Schiff
Release Year: 2000
Country: US
Run Time: 102 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In this action-laced comedy, a cop on the verge of a nervous breakdown finds love at the least convenient time. Charlie Mayo (Liam Neeson) is an undercover agent with the DEA who was nearly killed when a sting set up to nail a gang of drug dealers went horribly wrong. The accident left Charlie shaken, and he's gone into therapy to hold himself together as he struggles through one final case before retiring. Charlie's superior (Mitch Pileggi) has set him up on another undercover assignment as he tries to bring in two Colombian drug kingpins and a low-level Mafiosi with delusions of grandeur (Oliver Platt). As Charlie makes his way through therapy, he's referred to a nurse (Sandra Bullock) interested in New Age healing techniques; now he has love on his mind as he tries to keep himself out of harm's way under increasingly dangerous circumstances. Gun Shy marked the feature directorial debut of television veteran Eric Blakeney. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Andrew Lauer - Jason Cane; Mitch Pileggi - Dexter Helvenshaw; Paul Ben-Victor - Howard; Mary McCormack - Gloria Nesstra; Frank Vincent - Carmine Minetti; Gregg Daniel - Jonathan; Michael de Lorenzo - Estuvio; Michael Mantell - Dr. Bleckner; Louis Giambalvo - Lonny Ward
Credit
Seth Reed - Art Director, Laurel Smith - Casting, Marc S. Fischer - Co-producer, Mary Claire Hannan - Costume Designer, James B. Rogers - First Assistant Director, James B. Rogers - First Assistant Director, Eric Blakeney - Director, Pamela Martin - Editor, Rolfe Kent - Composer (Music Score), Emily Kaye - Musical Direction/Supervision, Alex Patsavas - Musical Direction/Supervision, Maher Ahmad - Production Designer, Tom Richmond - Cinematographer, Sandra Bullock - Producer, Maurin Scarlata - Set Designer, Geoffrey Patterson - Sound/Sound Designer, David Hankins - Sound Editor, Eric Blakeney - Screenwriter
The direction is proficient, but Mr. Blakeney has made his job look easy by shaping such a fine script. Good material certainly does a lot of the work. It gives the actors something to respond to, and they rise to the challenge."[1]
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Other reviewers were not so kind and it received a normalized score of 42 out of 100 on metacritic based on 20 reviews.[2]
