Freebie and the Bean (1974)
Directed by Richard Rush
Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.
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Alien Nation is just a buddy-cop movie where James Caan’s partner has spots on his head and is allergic to water, as opposed to say, in Freebie and the Bean where Caan's partner is a neurotic Hispanic (played by Alan Arkin).
Whether you are the kind of hard-core action buff who can recount the plot points of “Silent Rage” or “Freebie and the Bean” in obsessive detail or the kind of newbie who has yet to catch up with the likes of “Dirty Harry,” “Hot Fuzz” is the kind of instant classic comedy that will have you smiling for weeks after seeing it.
What works best about Hot Fuzz isn't its admirable respect for and similarly keen understanding of films like Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man and Richard Rush's fondly-remembered Freebie and the Bean, but that it, like Shaun of the Dead , functions remarkably well as an example of the genre--something of which most parodies (i.e.
…evoking completely out-of-style films of the 1970’s like Little Murders or Freebie and the Bean…