Jealous colleagues conspire to get a top London cop transferred to a small town and paired with a witless new partner. On the beat, the pair stumble upon a series of suspicious accidents and events.
Run Time
121 min
Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Rating Details
Rated R for violent content including some graphic images, and language.
Genre
Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Language
English
Keyword
Village, Police, Accident, Small Town, Arrest
Movie Rating
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital EX
Colour
Color
Film Type
Feature
Film Class
Action Comedy, Police Comedy
Themes
Fish Out of Water, Bumbling Cops
Tones
Quirky, Witty, Madcap, Stylized, Goofy
Keyword
Small Town
Has Detailed Data (New)
1, 2, 3, 7, 8
Count - Awards
5
US Box Office
24000000
Release Date
14/02/2007
Country
UK, France
Country Of Origin
UK, France
Wikipedia Plot
Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), an extremely dedicated police officer in London's Metropolitan Police Service, performs his duties so well that he is accused of making his colleagues look bad. As a result, his superiors transfer him to "crime-free" Sandford, a town in rural Gloucestershire. Once in Sandford, he immediately arrests a large group of under-age drinkers, and a drunk driver who turns out to be his partner, PC Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), the son of local police inspector Frank Butterman (Jim Broadbent). Danny, well-meaning but naive, is in awe of his new partner. Angel struggles to adjust to the slow, uneventful pace of the village. Despite clearing up several otherwise unnoticed crimes, including confiscating a naval mine and an absurd number of unlicensed firearms, Angel soon finds his most pressing concern is an escaped swan. His attention to the letter of the law also makes him the focus of dislike by some of his co-workers. Angel and Butterman eventually bond over drinks at the local pub and action films such as Point Break and Bad Boys II.
A series of gruesome deaths shock the town; Angel investigates, believing them to be murders. He attempts to arrest Simon Skinner (Timothy Dalton), the manager of the local Somerfield supermarket, under suspicion of murdering the victims due to their involvement in a lucrative property deal. Skinner is able to provide plausible explanations for all of Angel's charges, and an alibi.
Disappointed, Angel returns to his routine policing with Danny. However, he overhears a shopkeeper inquire about the 'killers'. He realizes that he was wrong in suspecting the murders to be the actions of one person. He takes his multiple-killer theory to Inspector Butterman, who asks him to sleep on it.
When Angel returns to his hotel room, he is attacked by a cloaked figure. He knocks the attacker unconscious, discovering it's Michael Armstrong (Rory McCann), the trolley boy at Somerfield, sent by Skinner to kill Angel. Tipped off by Skinner on Michael's walkie-talkie, Angel heads to a nearby castle where he discovers the truth: Skinner, Inspector Butterman, and the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance (NWA), intent on keeping Sandford's title of "Village of the Year", have been murdering anyone who they saw as a threat to the village's image. Angel discovers the bodies of various "problem" people whom the NWA disposed of, but then Danny, apparently a member of the NWA, corners him and fakes stabbing him.
Having tricked the NWA into believing that Angel is dead by putting a package of ketchup in Angel's notebook, Danny drives him to the village limits and releases him, insisting that he knew nothing about their true activities. Danny urges Angel to go back to London, reasoning that no one would believe the truth about Sandford. At a motorway service station, Angel sees Point Break and Bad Boys II on a nearby DVD rack and is inspired to stop the NWA. He drives back to town and arms himself with the guns he confiscated earlier, and with Danny's help, engages the NWA in an increasingly destructive series of gun fights. After persuading their colleagues of the truth about their village, Angel and Danny take the battle to Somerfield. Skinner and Inspector Butterman flee and are pursued by Angel and Danny to a nearby miniature park where Angel battles and defeats Skinner. Inspector Butterman attempts to escape in a car, but crashes into a tree when the swan Angel caught, before his fight with Skinner, attacks the Inspector from the back seat.
Angel's former superiors arrive from London, begging him to return as the crime rate has risen without him, but Angel chooses to remain in Sandford. Back at the police station, Tom Weaver, the last remaining member of the NWA, a
Wikipedia Text
Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British action/black comedy film directed and co-written by Edgar Wright, and co-written and starring Simon Pegg alongside Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the television series Spaced and the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead. The film was directed by Wright and produced by Nira Park, and follows two police officers attempting to solve a series of mysterious deaths in a small English village.
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