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Hot Fuzz

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2007 film by Edgar Wright

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7.6

Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.

Released: 2007-02-14121 minDir: Edgar WrightCrime, Action, ComedyBudget: $12.0MBox office: $80.6MPart of: Three Flavours Cornetto Collection

Cast

  • Simon Pegg as Nicholas Angel
  • Nick Frost as PC Danny Butterman
  • Jim Broadbent as Inspector Frank Butterman
  • Paddy Considine as DS Andy Wainwright
  • Rafe Spall as DC Andy Cartwright
  • Kevin Eldon as Sergeant Tony Fisher

Themes

  • countryside
  • police
  • village
  • arrest
  • parody
  • partner
  • murder
  • rural area
  • conspiracy
  • serial killer

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Ratings

IMDb

7.8/10

568,315 votes

Year
2007
Runtime
121 min
Genres
Action, Comedy, Mystery

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Key facts

Directed by
Edgar Wright
Written by
Edgar Wright Simon Pegg
Produced by
Nira Park Tim Bevan Eric Fellner
Starring
Simon Pegg Nick Frost Jim Broadbent
Cinematography
Jess Hall
Edited by
Chris Dickens
Music by
David Arnold
Production companies
Working Title Films Big Talk Productions
Distributed by
Rogue Pictures (North America) Universal Pictures (International) StudioCanal (France)
Release date
13 February 2007 ( 2007-02-13 ) (UK)
Running time
121 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
US$ 12–16 million
Box office
$80.7 million

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright and written by Wright and Simon Pegg. Pegg stars as Nicholas Angel, an elite police officer who is reassigned to a West Country village and investigates a series of gruesome deaths. Nick Frost co-stars as Police Constable Danny Butterman, Angel's partner.

Hot Fuzz is the second and most commercially successful film in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, following Shaun of the Dead and followed by The World's End. Over 100 action films were used as inspiration for the script. Principal photography took place in Wells, Somerset, for eleven weeks and ten artists worked on VFX, which involved explosions, gory gunfire scenes and a flip book.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hot Fuzz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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