Rush (1991 film)

Rush
Rush
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Directed by	Lili Fini Zanuck
Written by	Kim Wozencraft (book); Pete Dexter (screenplay)
Produced by	Gary Daigler; Richard D. Zanuck
Starring	Jason Patric; Jennifer Jason Leigh; Sam Elliott; Max Perlich; Gregg Allman; Tony Frank;
Cinematography	Kenneth MacMillan
Edited by	Mark Warner
Music by	Eric Clapton
Production; company	The Zanuck Company
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	December 22, 1991;
Running time	120 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$17 million
Box office	$7.2 million

Rush is a 1991 American crime drama film directed by Lili Fini Zanuck and based on a novel written by Kim Wozencraft. It stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Patric as two cops in the 1970s who go undercover on a case. They become drug addicts themselves and, under pressure from the chief of police, falsified evidence in some cases. The book and film are both based on a 1978-79 drug scandal involving the Tyler, Texas police department and Smith County, Texas Sheriff's Office. An FBI investigation led to the book's author and her partner pleading guilty to perjury, serving time in federal prison, and testifying in a federal civil rights case against Tyler, Texas police chief Willie Hardy, who was found not guilty by a jury of his peers in Smith County, Texas.^[2]^[3]

^ "Rush". Box Office Mojo.
^ Interview with former Tyler Police Chief Willie Hardy in 1991; https://www.truecrimetalestx.com/tyler-drug-scandal/ @16:34 of "Part 1"
^ Rush by Kim Ramsey Wozencraft, Random House; 1st Edition, March 1990, with substantial source material also from the highly controversial book Smith County Justice by David Ellsworth, 1st Electronic Printing; Open Seas Press 1985.

[1] "Rush". Box Office Mojo.

[2] Interview with former Tyler Police Chief Willie Hardy in 1991; https://www.truecrimetalestx.com/tyler-drug-scandal/ @16:34 of "Part 1"

[3] Rush by Kim Ramsey Wozencraft, Random House; 1st Edition, March 1990, with substantial source material also from the highly controversial book Smith County Justice by David Ellsworth, 1st Electronic Printing; Open Seas Press 1985.

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