Hudson Hawk

Hudson Hawk

Posted On: February 2, 2010

A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot.

  • Director: Michael Lehmann
  • Genre:Action / Adventure / Comedy
  • Runtime:100 minutes

Cast

Bruce Willis : Hudson Hawk
Danny Aiello : Tommy ‘Five-Tone’ Messina
Andie MacDowell : Anna Baragli
James Coburn .: George Kaplan
Richard E. Grant: Darwin Mayflower

The story begins with Eddie “Hudson Hawk” Hawkins (Bruce Willis), a master burglar and safe-cracker, attempting to celebrate his first day of parole from prison with a cappuccino. Before he can get it, he is blackmailed by various entities, including his own parole officer, a minor Newark Mafia family headed by Cesar Mario and the CIA into doing several dangerous art heists. Throughout the movie, Hudson attempts to enjoy a cappuccino, but is foiled each time.

The holders of the various players’ puppet strings turn out to be a “psychotic American corporation”, Mayflower Industries, run by a husband-and-wife team Darwin Mayflower (Richard E. Grant) and Minerva Mayflower (Sandra Bernhard) and their blade-slinging butler, Alfred (Donald Burton). The company, headquartered in the Esposizione Universale Roma (E.U.R.) in Rome, is seeking to take over the world by reconstructing “La Macchina dell’Oro”, a machine purportedly invented by Leonardo da Vinci (Stefano Molinari) which converts lead into gold. A special assembly of crystals needed for the machine to function are hidden in a variety of Leonardo’s artworks: the Sforza, the Da Vinci Codex, and a scale model of DaVinci’s helicopter design.

Sister Anna Baragli (Andie MacDowell), initially his tail and later his refuge (and subsequent love interest), is an operative for a secretive Vatican counter-espionage agency, called the Vatican Organization led by George Kaplan (James Coburn),which makes an unexplained arrangement with the CIA to assist in the Roman portion of Hudson’s mission, though apparently intending all along to use the connection to foil the robbery at St. Peter’s Basilica. Read more

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