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Mood:
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- Anti HeroesCriminal HeroesDeadly CreatureMad ScientistMaster CriminalPartners Against CrimeReluctant PartnersTough Law Enforcer more...
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- ActionComedyHorrorIndependentCrimeSci-FiThriller
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Dead Heat, 1988
English
USA
Profile of Dead Heat
Dead Heat can be described as humorous, scary, and exciting. The plot revolves around reluctant partners, a mad scientist, and a master criminal. Its comic aspect comes from silly humor. Dead Heat's main genres are comedy, independent, and action. In approach, it is fantastical. The storytelling is fast paced. Dead Heat is set, at least in part, in a laboratory. It takes place in the 1980s. It is well suited for teens and a boys' night.
Summary of Dead Heat
While investigating some frightening crimes that lead a pharmaceutical company, officers Roger Mortis (Treat Williams) and his partner Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo) pay a visit to Dante Laboratories. What they find shocks them and changes the course of their lives -- a high-tech "resurrection room" that has been churning out a weird band of recycled and indestructible criminals, and which eventually transforms Mortis into the undead!
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 6 May 1988 |
| Runtime: | 86 min |
Cast and Crew
as Roger Mortis
as Doug Bigelow
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