Turner & Hooch is a 1989 buddy cop comedy film starring Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, and Reginald VelJohnson. It was directed by Roger Spottiswoode; the film was originally slated to be directed by Henry Winkler, but he was terminated due to "creative differences". It was co-written by Michael Blodgett from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls fame. Although K-9 was released prior to this film , Turner & Hooch became more popular and seemingly over-shadowed its success, even though it had a very similar plot. A pilot for a Turner & Hooch TV series was made and ran as a... part of Disneyland. Scott Turner an obsessively neat police investigator, acquires Hooch , a large and slobbery Dogue de Bordeaux, after the murder of Amos Reed , a local junk-yard owner who was a friend of Turner's. Turner is bored with little police work in the fictional town of Cypress Beach, California and is set to transfer to a better job in Sacramento while fellow investigator David Sutton is to be his replacement.
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| Release date: | July 28, 1989 |
| Directed by: | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Producer: | Raymond Wagner |
| Music by: | Charles Gross |
| Cinematography: | Adam Greenberg |
| Screenplay by: | Dennis Shryack, Daniel Petrie, Jr., Jim Cash, Michael Blodgett, Jack Epps, Jr. |
| Estimated budget: | $42,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |