| Lethal Weapon 2 | |
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| Directed by | Richard Donner |
| Screenplay by | Jeffrey Boam |
| Story by | |
| Based on | Characters by Shane Black |
| Produced by | Richard Donner Joel Silver |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Stephen Goldblatt |
| Edited by | Stuart Baird |
| Music by | |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Afrikaans |
| Budget | $30 million[1] |
| Box office | $227.9 million[2] |
Lethal Weapon 2 is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor and Patsy Kensit. It is a sequel to the 1987 film Lethal Weapon and the second installment in the Lethal Weapon film series.
Gibson and Glover respectively reprise their roles as LAPD officers Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, who protect an irritating federal witness (Pesci), while taking on a gang of South African drug dealers hiding behind diplomatic immunity. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing (for Robert G. Henderson). The film received mostly positive reviews and earned more than $227 million worldwide.
- ^ Los Angeles Times
- ^ "Lethal Weapon 2". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 24, 2016.