LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley
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Axel is arrested for disturbing the peace by the Beverly Hills police and taken to the station, where he is questioned by Sergeant John Taggart (John Ashton) and Det. Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold). Taggart takes issue with Axel's irreverence and punches him in the stomach. Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) steps in to reprimand Taggart and presses Axel further, adding that he has spoken to Inspector Todd back in Detroit, who hints that Axel will be fired if he finds out that Axel is investigating Mikey's death.
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Axel goes home to find his best friend Mikey Tandino (James Russo) in his apartment, fresh from a job he got in Beverly Hills working for their mutual childhood friend, Jenny Summers (Lisa Eilbacher). Mikey shows off some German bearer bonds he "borrowed" from his employers, which momentarily concerns Axel, but he is more interested in catching up with his old friend. After a night of drinking, Axel and Mikey return home and are accosted outside Axel's apartment by a burly man Mikey recognizes as Zack (Jonathan Banks). Zack knocks Axel unconscious before he sees anyone, confronts Mikey about the bearer bonds, then shoots him twice in the head. After the police respond, Axel asks Todd to be let in on the case, but Todd flatly refuses. Deciding to secretly root around from a different angle, Axel asks for and is granted two weeks' vacation time.
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The fish-out-of-water business comes in when Foley is to close to bewildered by the excesses of Beverly Hills, the location of Maitland´s art gallery. "Crocodile Dundee" would follow the same course a couple of years later, an Aussie outlander in the urban jungles of New York City. Anyway, Foley finds a lot of Beverly Hills amusing, checks into the most expensive hotel he can find, and gets down to work. With the help of an old friend, Jenny Summers (Lisa Eilbacher), who conveniently works for Maitland, he learns where Maitland´s office is. He´s not in the office more than a few minutes than he mentions Mikey´s name and gets tossed out a plate glass window by six of Maitland´s goons. The Beverly Hills police arrest him for breaking the window and then try to kick him out of town! Shades of "In the Heat of the Night." Once in police headquarters, an ultra-clean, ultramodern, ultra-tech, ultra-expensive complex of offices that further amuses and slightly confounds him, we meet the film´s final trio of characters: Detective Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), Sgt. Taggert (John Ashton), and Lt. Bogomil (Ronny Cox), who will eventually, after much hesitation, unite with Foley to solve the case.
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Murphy, as Detroit fish out of water cop, Axel Foley, goes to Beverly Hills for the typical class of cultures bit. While the script is formulaic it is ... quite funny, especially by the standard of its day. A good supporting cast of straight-men played by Judge Reinhol, the under appreciated John Ashton and Ronny Cox all help make Beverly Hills Cop a simple, good time. The film was edgy but not so edgy as to keep the film from being family friendly enough to pack theaters.
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[H]ow does a down-and-dirty Detroit police detective wind up in posh Beverly Hills? Not by accident. The movie combines a fish-out-of-water tale with a basic revenge plot to get him there. Foley´s best friend growing up, Mikey (James Russo), still a hood, comes to Foley´s apartment to see him after many years. He reveals he´s been in L.A., working for a big art dealer named Victor Maitland (Steven Berkoff), and he´s stolen some German bearer bonds from him. Shortly thereafter, Mikey is murdered.
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Join Axel Foley as he makes his long-awaited return in this thrilling all-new action adventure, based on the Beverly Hills Cop movie from Paramount Pictures! Have you got what it takes to survive on the mean streets of Los Angeles?
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