turner and hooch
Hanks plays Turner, a meticulously groomed, excruciatingly well-organized detective working in a small California coastal town. [1]
Much better than your average cop-and-dog movie (e.g., K-9), Turner and Hooch is really a love story about a control freak (Tom Hanks) who gradually resigns to the messy chaos of a sweet hulk of a pooch named Hooch. [2]
One by-product of two consecutive Oscar wins is that Tom Hanks no longer has to appear in such potboilers as Turner and Hooch. [1]
Turner & Hooch has been referred to in various movies and television shows, including the ABC medical sitcom Scrubs, in which main characters J.D. and Turk modify shift schedules so that Doctors Turner and Hooch are teamed up as a surgical team in the episode “My Faith in Humanity ” (Doctor Turner was played by Jim Hanks, Tom Hanks’ brother). [3]
View company contact information for Turner & Hooch on IMDbPro. [4]
You’re way ahead of us, folks: Turner, who despises dogs in general and Hooch in particular, is compelled to put the cantankerous dog up as his house guest. [5]
A detective must adopt the dog of a dead man to help him find the murderer. [4]
The excuse for this relationship is that the dog can identify a murderer and Hanks needs him, but the film is really about such hilarious moments as Hanks bathing Hooch with a long brush, and a wild chase through the streets when the sharp-eyed mutt spots his suspect. [2]
Tom Hanks plays Scott Turner, an obsessively neat police investigator, who acquires Hooch (Beasley the Dog), a large and slobbery Dogue de Bordeaux, after the murder of Amos Reed (John McIntire), a local junk yard owner he was friends with. [...] Turner & Hooch is a 1989 comedy film starring Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, and Reginald VelJohnson. [3]
Henry Winkler was set to direct but didn’t get along with Tom Hanks, and was summarily fired from the picture. [4]
It was directed by Roger Spottiswoode; the movie was originally slated to be directed by Henry Winkler, but he was terminated due to “creative differences”. [3]
Layered over this is a healthy love story between Hanks and animal vet Mare Winningham, who share a terribly sexy scene together–while fully clothed–doing no more than making breakfast. [2]
Neither terrific nor terrible, Turner and Hooch is a pleasant time-filler; we do wish, however, that more time had been spent on the budding romance between Turner and veterinarian Emily Carson (Mare Winningham). [1]
Continuity: In one of the beginning sequences in the film, when Scott Turner is going to visit Amos Reed and Hooch gets loose, Hooch chases Scott down the walkway and tackles him. [4]
Sources:
[1] Turner and Hooch - Video - DVD | BarnesandNoble.com
[2] Amazon.com: Turner and Hooch: Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham …
[3] Turner & Hooch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] Turner & Hooch (1989)
[5] Turner and Hooch 1989: Movie and film review from Answers.com