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POLICE STORY
DIRECTOR: JACKIE CHAN
HONG KONG, 1985
Jackie Chan wrote, directed, starred in, and sang the title song to this breakout film that spawned four sequels. POLICE STORY opens explosively with Hong Kong cop Chan Ka Kui (Chan) tearing through a shantytown on the trail of the notorious drug lord Chu Tao. With wily double-decker-bus-stopping bravery, Ka Kui brings him in and, despite the wreckage, becomes a public hero. Keeping the beautiful and uncooperative key witness safe for Tao’s trial keeps Ka Kui’s hands full and his girlfriend on the edge. In this stunt-heavy kick-’em-up—which he has called his favorite film—Chan is in top form with all his trademark acrobatics, sly humor, and clumsy romantic moves. (101 mins.)
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