Review of Hard Time

Hard Time (1998 TV Movie)
4/10
It was fun to see this made for tv movie pairing two friends Burt Reynolds and Charles Durning as police partners.
25 January 2024
Burt Reynolds and Charles Durning play aging cops and longtime partners. Charles Durning plays Detective Charlie who is on the cusp of retirement and definitely slowing down more than a bit. He is busy trying to talk his partner Det. Logan McQueen into slowing down as well...including signing the two of them up for graffiti patrol. This does not prevent Logan from taking chase after two thieves. He manages to corner them until they turn the tables on him taking both his gun and his handcuffs. This ends up having terrible consequences as one of the thieves winds up dead, shot with Logan's gun and handcuffed to a case containing the stolen money. Only it wasn't all of the drug runner's money, some of it was missing. This gets Logan not only in trouble with the law but with Connie Martin.

Set in colorful California it was fun to see these two friends together on screen. It was also fun to see Mia Sara play Myler...Logan's reluctant lawyer. The real question becomes will Logan solve this puzzle before it's too late?

I wouldn't necessarily seek it out, but it was decent late night tv.
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