Beverly Hills Cop

Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Martin Brest
Screenplay by	Daniel Petrie Jr.
Story by	Danilo Bach; Daniel Petrie Jr.;
Produced by	Don Simpson; Jerry Bruckheimer;
Starring	Eddie Murphy; Judge Reinhold; John Ashton; Lisa Eilbacher; Ronny Cox; Steven Berkoff;
Cinematography	Bruce Surtees
Edited by	Arthur Coburn; Billy Weber;
Music by	Harold Faltermeyer
Production; companies	Paramount Pictures; Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films; Eddie Murphy Productions;
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	December 1, 1984 (Los Angeles); December 5, 1984 (United States);
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$13 million
Box office	$320 million

Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Martin Brest, with a screenplay by Daniel Petrie Jr., and story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie Jr. It stars Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit detective who visits Beverly Hills, California, to solve the murder of his best friend. Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronny Cox, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff, Paul Reiser, and Jonathan Banks appear in supporting roles.

This first film in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise shot Murphy to international stardom, won the People's Choice Award for "Favorite Motion Picture", and was nominated for both the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1985. The film was released on December 5, 1984 by Paramount Pictures. An immediate blockbuster, it received positive reviews and earned $320 million at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing film released in the U.S. in 1984. In December 2024, around the time of the film’s 40th anniversary and three months after John Ashton’s death, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[4]

Adjusted for inflation, it is the highest-grossing R-rated film in the U.S. since 1977, with a total box office gross of $730,714,743 in 2024.^[5]

^ "Beverly Hills Cop (15)". British Board of Film Classification. December 10, 1984. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
^ Cite error: The named reference budget was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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^ "25 Films Added to National Film Registry for Preservation". December 17, 2024. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
^ "All Time Domestic Inflation Adjusted Box Office". www.the-numbers.com. Archived from the original on April 9, 2024. Retrieved May 6, 2024.

[1] "Beverly Hills Cop (15)". British Board of Film Classification. December 10, 1984. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2015.

[budget-2] Cite error: The named reference budget was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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[2024NFR-4] "25 Films Added to National Film Registry for Preservation". December 17, 2024. Retrieved December 17, 2024.

[CopBoxOffice-5] "All Time Domestic Inflation Adjusted Box Office". www.the-numbers.com. Archived from the original on April 9, 2024. Retrieved May 6, 2024.

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