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  • Beverly Hills Cop
  • Beverly Hills Cop review by KenTM from Oxford, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Banana in my tailpipe 2 June 2004
    ...cate otherwise). This film is what it is for the comedy. The classic pairing of John Ashton and Judge Reinhold as the beleaguered husband/dappy housewife cop partners and ...   Read customer review

John Ashton - filmography


  • Gone Baby Gone on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Casey Affleck,  Michelle Monaghan,  Morgan Freeman
    Director: Ben Affleck
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Based on the Dennis Lehane novel about two Boston area detectives investigating a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 51,135 members
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  • Gone Baby Gone - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Morgan Freeman,  Casey Affleck,  Michelle Monaghan
    Director: Ben Affleck
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tense detective thriller, directed by Ben Affleck, about a small-time private investigator hired to find a kidnapped girl. Living and working in a run-down, impoverished district of Boston, Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck), along with his partner Angela (Michelle Monaghan), investigates the cases ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 6,255 members
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  • Fast Money (1995)
    Starring: Matt McCoy,  Carole Cook,  Yancy Butler
    Director: Alexander Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Reporter Jack Martin (Matt McCoy) is onto a story concerning a corrupt senator and Francesca Marsh (Yancy Butler) is a beautiful car thief. Their paths cross when they are both in need of immediate transport only to find themselves in possession of a briefcase full of stolen millions, with both the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 11 members
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  • Tommyknockers (1993)
    Starring: Jimmy Smits,  Marg Helgenberger,  John Ashton
    Director: John Power
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Adapted for TV, this is a Stephen_King story in which an aspiring writer and an alcoholic poet (with a metal plate in his head, no less) literally stumble over a long-buried spaceship while walking in the woods. It starts glowing green when uncovered and soon everyone in town has green eyes, their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 306 members
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  • I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)
    Starring: Cindy Pickett,  John Ashton,  Corin Nemec
    Director: Larry Elikann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    7-year old Steven Stayner is kidnapped a few days before Christmas by Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive sexual abuse the entire time. Finally, at fourteen,..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 34 members
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  • She's Having A Baby on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Dennis Dugan,  Paul Gleason,  William Windom
    Director: John Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Here we have a young newly-wed couple facing the trials and tribulations of marriage, domestic life and impending parenthood. Narrated by the husband who feels trapped and questions the meaning of the whole thing. Comedy drama with appealing stars.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 949 members
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  • Midnight Run on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Yaphet Kotto,  Tracey Walter,  Joe Pantoliano
    Director: Martin Brest
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter offered $100,000 to bring in embezzler Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin). Handcuffed to the wimpy Mardukas, Walsh assumes that the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 7,735 members
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  • Beverly Hills Cop 2 on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Ronny Cox,  Paul Reiser,  Gilbert Hill
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Classic comedy sequel starring Eddie Murphy. Fast-talking cop from Detroit, Axel Foley (Murphy), is called off a credit card case when his Beverly Hills buddies are foiled on a trail more suited to his unique skills - that of an illegal arms dealer (Jurgen Prochnow).
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 12,813 members
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  • Beverly Hills Cop 2 - Blu-ray (1987)
    Starring: Ronny Cox,  Paul Reiser,  Gilbert Hill
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Classic comedy sequel starring Eddie Murphy. Fast-talking cop from Detroit, Axel Foley (Murphy), is called off a credit card case when his Beverly Hills buddies are foiled on a trail more suited to his unique skills - that of an illegal arms dealer (Jurgen Prochnow).
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 5 members
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  • King Kong Lives on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Linda Hamilton,  Peter Michael,  Brian Kerwin
    Director: John Guillermin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    King Kong Lives is also know as King Kong II, a epic movie directed by John Guillermin starred Linda Hamilton and Brian Kerwin. After being shot down, King Kong is kept alive in a coma for about 10 years. In order to save Kong's life, the doctor must perform a heart transplant and give Kong a ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 275 members
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  • Beverly Hills Cop - Blu-ray (1984)
    Starring: Ronny Cox,  James Russo,  Eddie Murphy
    Director: Martin Brest
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Eddie Murphy plays fast-talking Detroit cop Axel Foley, whose regular assignments include tracking down cigarette thieves. When a friend is killed, he begins an unofficial investigation which leads him to Beverly Hills, where he runs into trouble with the straight-laced police force who disapprove ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 396 members
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  • Beverly Hills Cop on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Ronny Cox,  James Russo,  Eddie Murphy
    Director: Martin Brest
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    What's that wisecracking young black guy (Eddie Murphy) in that beat-up Chevy Nova doing in lily-white Beverly Hills? He's Axel Foley, a Detroit detective who's been sent on involuntary vacation because he refuses to drop his intention of avenging his friend's murder. Warned by Beverly Hills police ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 20,593 members
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  • Borderline on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Panchito Gomez,  Bruno Kirby,  Kenneth McMillan
    Director: Jerrold Freedman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    It is Californian border patrolman Jeb Maynard's (Charles Bronson) job to keep illegal immigrants out of America, although he is aware that exploitative smugglers are helping illegal aliens get into the country. When both his colleague, Scooter (Wilfred Brimley) and a young Mexican boy are killed ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 120 members
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John Ashton facts

5 most recent films

Gone Baby Gone - 3.5 stars
Gone Baby Gone - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Fast Money - 2.5 stars
Little Big League - 2.5 stars
Tommyknockers - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Beverly Hills Cop - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Gone Baby Gone - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Midnight Run - 3.5 stars
Beverly Hills Cop - 3.5 stars
Gone Baby Gone - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Fast Money - 2.5 stars
The Alain Resnais Collection - 2.5 stars
Little Big League - 2.5 stars
Beverly Hills Cop 2 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
I Know My First Name Is Steven - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ed Harris - 5 times - show films
Ronny Cox - 4 times - show films
Eddie Murphy - 4 times - show films
Judge Reinhold - 4 times - show films
Amy Madigan - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Martin Brest - 3 times - show films
Ben Affleck - 3 times - show films
Tony Scott - 2 times - show films
Jerrold Freedman - 2 times - show films
Andrew Scheinman - 1 times - show films