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* PursuedProtagonist: At the beginning of the film, four men in a speedboat are drifting on a foggy night, trying to hide from several villains who taunt them from a more powerful speedboat and display the severed head of one of their associates. As the killers get closer, their targets turn on the engine of their boat and make a run for it, but are chased down and run aground, with two of the four being killed while the other two narrowly escape over a fence.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Fielding may have a split-personality disorder, but he also establishes himself as an extremely good investigator [[EstablishingCharacterMoment in his very first scene]] by making a SherlockScan of a crime scene and giving Mac and his boss the blow-by-blow (drive-by from a racing boat because of the absurd amount of bullet spread, one of the deceased must have medical records because there's a steel pin on his leg, etc.)
* EpiphanyTherapy: Or more like [[spoiler:''torture'' therapy, but nevertheless Fielding's split-personality disorder finally gets fixed in the final act by enduring TheDragon's JackBauerInterrogationTechnique and Fielding even, in a way, thanks him for it.]]
-->'''Fielding''': Humpty Dumpty's back on the wall! ([[PreMortemOneLiner blasts the head goon]], who [[DestinationDefenestration falls through a window to his death]])
* EpiphanyTherapy: Or more like [[spoiler:''torture'' therapy, but nevertheless Fielding's split-personality disorder finally gets fixed in the final act by enduring TheDragon's JackBauerInterrogationTechnique and Fielding even, in a way, thanks him for it.]]
-->'''Fielding''': Humpty Dumpty's back on the wall! ([[PreMortemOneLiner blasts the head goon]], who [[DestinationDefenestration falls through a window to his death]])
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''Loose Cannons'' (1990) is a buddy-cop film directed by Bob Clark and starring Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/DanAykroyd, and Creator/DomDeluise. It centers around a CowboyCop and multiple-personality, idiosyncratic investigator searching for the lost Hitler porno.
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''Loose Cannons''(1990) is a buddy-cop 1990 [[BuddyCopShow buddy cop]] comedy film directed by Bob Clark and Creator/BobClark, starring Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/DomDeluise, and Creator/DomDeluise. It Creator/RonnyCox. Clark co-wrote the screenplay with Creator/RichardMatheson and his son Richard Christian Matheson.
The plot centers around a CowboyCop and a multiple-personality, idiosyncratic investigator searching forthe a lost Hitler UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler porno.
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''Loose Cannons'' (1990) is a buddy-cop film directed by Bob Clark and starring Gene Hackman, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/DanAykroyd, and Dom Deluise.Creator/DomDeluise. It centers around a CowboyCop and multiple-personality, idiosyncratic investigator searching for the lost Hitler porno.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mac Stern is an arrogant and snarky cop, but generates sympathy for Fielding and learns to respect him and his disorder.
* MacGuffin: The Nazi porno starring Hitler, which is being searched by the Nazis, Israelis, the main character detectives, and the FBI.
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Loose Cannons (1990) is a buddy-cop film directed by Bob Clark and starring Gene Hackman, Dan Akroyd, and Dom Deluise. It centers around a Cowboy Cop and multiple-personality, idiosyncratic investigator searching for the lost Hitler porno.
