Rush Hour
“The fastest hands in the East meet the biggest mouth in the West.”
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Genres
Action, Comedy, Crime
Studio
New Line Cinema
Language
en
Status
Released
How Rush Hour performed
Budget
$33.0M
Worldwide Gross
$244.7M
Gross Profit
$211.7M
Return
7.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$33M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Lee
Jackie Chan
Lee
Carter
Chris Tucker
Carter
Griffin
Tom Wilkinson
Griffin
Captain Diel
Philip Baker Hall
Captain Diel
Johnson
Elizabeth Peña
Johnson
Clive
Chris Penn
Clive
Agent Russ
Mark Rolston
Agent Russ
Consul Han
Tzi Ma
Consul Han
Agent Whitney
Rex Linn
Agent Whitney
Sang
Ken Leung
Sang
First Caucasien
Robert Littman
First Caucasien
Diner Guest
Michael Chow
Diner Guest
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