What is Lethal Weapon?
{{redlinks|date=April 2020}} {{italictitle}} '''''Lethal Weapon''''' is a 1987 [[United States|American]] [[buddy cop movie|buddy cop]] [[action movie]]. It was [[movie director|directed]] by [[Richard Donner]] and [[movie producer|produced]] by him and [[Joel Silver]]. It was [[screenwriter|written]] by [[Shane Black]]. It stars [[Mel Gibson]] and [[Danny Glover]] as [[Los Angeles Police Department|LAPD]] [[sergeant]]s. Gibson plays [[narcotics]] [[sergeant]] [[Martin Riggs]] and Glover plays [[homicide]] sergeant [[Roger Murtaugh]]. They are very different from each other. However, they have to work together to stop a [[gang]] of [[heroin]] [[smuggler]]s, including [[fictional character|character]]s played by [[Gary Busey]] and [[Mitchell Ryan]]. It is the first in a [[Lethal Weapon (movie series)|series of four movies]]. ==Cast== {{div col}} *[[Mel Gibson]] as [[Martin Riggs]] *[[Danny Glover]] as [[Roger Murtaugh]] *[[Gary Busey]] as Jack Joshua *[[Mitchell Ryan]] as Peter McAllister *[[Tom Atkins (actor)|Tom Atkins]] as Michael Hunsaker *[[Darlene Love]] as Trish Murtaugh *[[Jackie Swanson]] as Amanda Hunsaker * Traci Wolfe as Rianne Murtaugh * Damon Hines as Nick Murtaugh *[[Ebonie Smith]] as Carrie Murtaugh *[[Steve Kahan]] as Captain Murphy *[[Mary Ellen Trainor]] as Dr. Stephanie Woods *[[Ed O'Ross]] as Mendez *[[Lycia Naff]] as Dixie *[[Jimmie F. Skaggs]] as Drug Dealer #1 * Jason Ronard as Drug Dealer #2 *Blackie Dammett as Drug Dealer #3 *[[Al Leong]] as Endo *[[Jack Thibeau]] as McCaskey *[[Grand Bush]] as Boyette *[[Henry Brown (actor)|Henry Brown]] as Plainclothes Cop {{div col end}} == Other websites == *{{imdb title|tt0093409}} {{movie-stub}} [[Category:1987 action movies]] [[Category:1987 crime movies]] [[Category:1987 thriller movies]] [[Category:1980s buddy movies]] [[Category:1980s crime thriller movies]] [[Category:American action movies]] [[Category:American crime thriller movies]] [[Category:Buddy cop movies]] [[Category:English-language movies]] [[Category:Movies about drugs]] [[Ca