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To Live and Die in L.A. is a american film of genre Thriller directed by William Friedkin released in USA on 1 november 1985 with William Petersen

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

To Live and Die in L.A.
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Released in USA 1 november 1985
Length 1h56
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Thriller,    Action,    Crime
Rating72% 3.6482953.6482953.6482953.6482953.648295

To Live and Die in L.A. is a 1985 American action thriller film directed by William Friedkin and based on the novel by former U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, who co-wrote the screenplay with Friedkin. The film features William Petersen, Willem Dafoe and John Pankow among others. Wang Chung composed and performed the original music soundtrack. The film tells the story of the lengths to which two Secret Service agents go to arrest a counterfeiter.

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Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart are United States Secret Service agents assigned as counterfeiting investigators in its Los Angeles field office. Chance has a reputation for reckless behavior, while Hart is three days away from retirement. Alone, Hart stakes out a warehouse in the desert thought to be a print house of counterfeiter Rick Masters. After Masters and Jack, his bodyguard, kill Hart, Chance explains to his new partner, John Vukovich, that he will take Masters down no matter what.

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