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Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Simon Wincer
Produced by	Paul Hogan Perry Katz
Written by	Matthew Berry Eric Abrams Paul Hogan (characters)
Starring	Paul Hogan Linda Kozlowski Jere Burns Jonathan Banks
Music by	Basil Poledouris
Cinematography	David Burr Ted Chu
Editing by	Terry Blythe
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	April 20, 2001
Running time	92 min.
Country
Language	English
Budget	$21.15 million1
Gross revenue	$39,438,6742

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles is a 2001 American comedy film, directed by Simon Wincer and starring Paul Hogan. It is the sequel to the 1988 film Crocodile Dundee II, which itself was the sequel to 1986's Crocodile Dundee. Hogan and Linda Kozlowski reprise their roles as "Mick Dundee" and "Sue Charlton," respectively. The film was shot on location in Los Angeles and in Queensland.

Plot

Mick Dundee is living in the Australian Outback with Sue Charlton and their young son Mikey. Crocodile hunting has been made illegal; therefore Mick has been reduced to wrestling the animals for the entertainment of tourists, having as his rival in the business another Outback survivalist named Jacko. When an opportunity comes for Sue to become Los Angeles bureau chief of a newspaper owned by her father, Mick and family cross the Pacific to California.

Once in America, Mick and his son's encounters with the locals cause more than a few cross-cultural mishaps, including a gay bar and a massive traffic jam on the freeway, caused when the Dundees attempt an animal rescue of a skunk (which they mistake for an odd-looking cat). Mick becomes an amateur sleuth helping to probe the mysterious death of his wife's predecessor at the newspaper, while Mikey attends a local school, where he quickly impresses his classmates and teacher with his outback survival skills.

As it turns out, a film studio the dead reporter had been investigating is about to make a sequel to the action movie Lethal Agent, which is strange considering that the first attempts were disastrous commercial failures. Mick becomes suspicious when several paintings from Eastern Europe are brought onto the set; although at first he suspects drug smuggling (with the drugs hidden in the frames), the pictures themselves are revealed to be missing art from a museum in former Yugoslavia. They are to appear in the movie as mere props, to be publicly 'destroyed' in a scene in which they are set on fire, at which time they will have been exchanged for copies.

Attempting to secure one of the paintings as evidence, Mick, Sue, and Jacko run afoul of the studio director and his thugs. Using the studio's props and two lions used in the filmings to defeat the gangsters, Mick and Sue solve the case and return to Australia, where they are officially married, and Jacko brings Mikey's teacher back with him.

Cast

• Paul Hogan as Michael J. 'Crocodile' Dundee
• Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton
• Jere Burns as Arnan Rothman
• Jonathan Banks as Molis Drubnik
• Alec Wilson as Jacko
• Gerry Skilton as Nugget O'Cass
• Steve Rackman as Donk
• Serge Cockburn as Michael 'Mikey' Dundee
• Aida Turturro as Jean Ferraro
• Paul Rodriguez as Diego
• Kaitlin Hopkins as Miss Mathis
• George Hamilton as the Coffee Colonic Guy
• Mike Tyson as Mike, the Man Meditating in Park

Reception

This film was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Remake or Sequel. According to Rotten Tomatoes only 12% of 78 critics rated the movie favorably.

References

1. ^ Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) - Box office / business
2. ^ Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)

External links

• Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles at the Internet Movie Database

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