| Rush | |
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| Directed by | Lili Fini Zanuck |
| Written by | Kim Wozencraft (book) Pete Dexter (screenplay) |
| Produced by | Gary Daigler Richard D. Zanuck |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Kenneth MacMillan |
| Edited by | Mark Warner |
| Music by | Eric Clapton |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $17 million |
| Box office | $7.2 million[1] |
Rush is a 1991 American crime drama film directed by Lili Fini Zanuck and based on a novel written by Kim Wozencraft. It stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Patric as two cops in the 1970s who go undercover on a case. They become drug addicts themselves and, under pressure from the chief of police, falsified evidence in some cases. The book and film are both based on a 1978-79 drug scandal involving the Tyler, Texas police department and Smith County, Texas Sheriff's Office. An FBI investigation led to the book's author and her partner pleading guilty to perjury, serving time in federal prison, and testifying in a federal civil rights case against Tyler, Texas police chief Willie Hardy, who was found not guilty by a jury of his peers in Smith County, Texas.[2][3]
- ^ "Rush". Box Office Mojo.
- ^ Interview with former Tyler Police Chief Willie Hardy in 1991; https://www.truecrimetalestx.com/tyler-drug-scandal/ @16:34 of "Part 1"
- ^ Rush by Kim Ramsey Wozencraft, Random House; 1st Edition, March 1990, with substantial source material also from the highly controversial book Smith County Justice by David Ellsworth, 1st Electronic Printing; Open Seas Press 1985.