Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 action-comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Tony Scott. It is the first sequel in the Beverly Hills Cop series. Murphy returns as Detroit police detective Axel Foley, who returns to Beverly Hills, California to track down a joint robbery/gun-running ring. He reunites with Beverly Hills detectives Billy Rosewood and John Taggart to stop the gang after their friend, Captain Andrew Bogomil , is shot and seriously wounded by them. Although it made less money than the original Beverly Hills Cop and received mixed reviews from critics, the film was... still a box office success, making $153,665,036 domestically. Aside from box office success, the film was nominated for an Oscar and for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song, for the song "Shakedown".
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| Release date: | May 20, 1987 |
| Directed by: | Tony Scott |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jerry Bruckheimer, Don Simpson |
| Editor: | Billy Weber, Chris Lebenzon, Michael Tronick |
| Music by: | Harold Faltermeyer |
| Screenplay by: | Eddie Murphy, Robert Wachs |
| Estimated budget: | $20,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |