- Rent-A-Cop
:"This is an article about the movie. For the use of Rent-A-Cop as a nickname see
Security guard ."Infobox Film
name = Rent-A-Cop
caption = Tagline: "There's a killer on the loose and the lady is the target"
director =Jerry London
producer =Raymond Wagner John D. Schofield
writer =Michael Blodgett Dennis Shryack
starring =Burt Reynolds Liza Minnelli
music =Jerry Goldsmith
cinematography =Giuseppe Rotunno
editing =Robert Lawrence
distributor = Kings Road Entertainment
released = 1987
runtime = 96 mins.
country =United States
language = English"Rent-A-Cop" is a 1987 action / comedy /
crime film starringBurt Reynolds andLiza Minnelli . Reynolds plays a disgraced police officer, now working as asecurity guard , who falls in with Minnelli, who plays aprostitute .The film helped both lead actors to be nominated for the
1988 Golden Raspberry Awards for "Worst Actor" and "Worst Actress." (These nominations were not solely on the merits of "Rent-A-Cop", however; Reynolds and Minnelli were also cited for "Switching Channels " and "", respectively).The film earned under US$300,000 in American ticket sales. IMDb lists the film as having debuted in 1987 because the movie came out in
West Germany inNovember 1987 , two months before its American premiere.External links
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