The Rookie (1990 film)

The Rookie
A black poster with three horizontal red lines. Above are the faces of two serious-looking men. The man on the left, is young and black-haired. The man on the right, is older and lighter-haired. The right sides of their faces are invisible because of darkness. Below that in bold white letters are the lines: "The Rookie", "Clint Eastwood" and "Charlie Sheen". To the left of this text is a closeup of a revolver, and to the right and below are police cars, an aircraft, and a fiery explosion. The film credits appear at the bottom, with a line in bold white letters that reads: "Starts Friday December 7th Everywhere".
Theatrical release poster
Directed byClint Eastwood
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJack N. Green
Edited byJoel Cox
Music byLennie Niehaus
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • December 7, 1990 (1990-12-07)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[1]
Box office$21.6 million[2]

The Rookie is a 1990 American buddy cop action thriller film directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Boaz Yakin and Scott Spiegel, and produced by Howard G. Kazanjian, Steven Siebert, and David Valdes. The film stars Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sônia Braga, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Tom Skerritt. Eastwood plays a veteran police officer teamed up with a younger detective played by Sheen (the rookie), whose intent is to take down a German crime lord in downtown Los Angeles, following months of investigation into an exotic car theft ring.

The Rookie premiered in the United States and Canada on December 7, 1990, grossing $21,633,874 in ticket receipts, just under its budget of $30 million. The film was overshadowed by the continuing success of Home Alone, which opened three weeks earlier and ended up being one of the top 100 highest-grossing films of all time. A financial disappointment, The Rookie was met with generally lackluster reviews. Critics considered it formulaic and shallow, and questioned the casting of the Puerto Rican Julia and the Brazilian Braga as Germans; a scene in which Eastwood was raped by Braga also generated some controversy. The stunts and special effects, however, were met with praise.

  1. ^ "AFI|Catalog". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  2. ^ "The Rookie (1990)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 February 2018.