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Lethal Weapon 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Richard Donner
Screenplay by
Jeffrey Boam
Story by
Shane Black
Warren Murphy
Based on
Characters by Shane Black
Produced by
Richard Donner Joel Silver
Starring
Mel Gibson
Danny Glover
Joe Pesci
Joss Ackland
Derrick O'Connor
Patsy Kensit
Cinematography
Stephen Goldblatt
Edited by
Stuart Baird
Music by
Michael Kamen
Eric Clapton
David Sanborn
Production company
Silver Pictures
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release date
July 7, 1989 (1989-07-07)
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.
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