The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Renny Harlin and written by David Arnott, James Cappe, and Daniel Waters based on a story by Arnott and Cappe. The film stars comedian Andrew Dice Clay as the title character, Ford Fairlane, a "Rock n' Roll Detective", whose beat is the music industry in Los Angeles. True to his name, Ford drives a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner in the film.

The film's main character was created by writer Rex Weiner in a series of stories that were published as weekly serials 1979–80 by the New York Rocker and the LA Weekly. The stories have since been published as an e-Book.

The film was both a commercial and critical failure, grossing a little more than half its budget and "winning" the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, tying with Bo Derek's Ghosts Can't Do It.

Synopsis

Ford Fairlane (Andrew Dice Clay) is seen sitting on a beach smoking as the film opens. A flashback initiates, showing a roaring crowd at a concert given by fictional popular heavy metal band The Black Plague. Lead singer Bobby Black (Vince Neil) makes an eccentric entrance down a zip-line onto the stage and begins performing. Shortly into one of the band's songs, Bobby Black collapses on stage and dies.

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