National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 is a 1993 crime-comedy film, directed by Gene Quintano and starring Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson and William Shatner. The film mainly spoofs the first three Lethal Weapon films, as well as other films that include Basic Instinct, Die Hard, Dirty Harry, Rambo, The Silence of the Lambs, Wayne's World and 48 Hrs.. There was every intention to make a sequel to Loaded Weapon 1. A deal had been set in place before the film had gone into production and a poster had even been printed with the caption, "Oh come ON, you knew it was coming!" When Loaded Weapon 1... underperformed at the box office, however, the deal was severed. In Los Angeles, Billie York is murdered by Mr. Jigsaw because she possesses a microfilm with the recipe to turn cocaine into Wilderness Girls cookies and she won't hand it over to the ones that seek it. Her former partner, Wes Luger , takes the case in an attempt to avenge her death.
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| Release date: | February 5, 1993 |
| Directed by: | Gene Quintano |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 84 Minutes |
| Producer: | Suzanne Todd, David Willis, Jennifer Todd |
| Music by: | Robert Folk |
| Screenplay by: | Don Holley, Tori Tellem, Gene Quintano |
| Estimated budget: | $8,200,000 |
| Genre: | Action, Comedy |