The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1991 features the year’s biggest flop, Michael Lehmann’s Hudson Hawk. Directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Bruce Willis, Andie MacDowell, Danny Aiello, Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard, Hudson Hawk is based on a character created by Willis and songwriter Robert Kraft.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Janet Maslin in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/24/movies/review-film-bruce-willis-as-a-hip-cat-burglar.html), Variety (https://variety.com/1990/film/reviews/hudson-hawk-1200428876/), and Hal Hinson in The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/hudsonhawkrhinson_a0a682.htm).
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