Release Date: Dec 25, 1974 Wide
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Freebie (James Caan) and the Bean (Alan Arkin) are a pair of San Francisco cops. Red Meyers (Jack Kruschen) is the mobster whom Freebie and the Bean would like to see behind bars -- or, failing that, six feet under. Nothing stands in the way of the cops' pursuit of Meyers, meaning that private property is given quite a going-over in this picture. The film's most memorable scene finds Freebie and the Bean crashing their car into a poor schnook's living room. TV favorites Loretta Swit and Valerie
Dec 25, 1974 Wide
Jan 11, 2011
$8.3k
Warner Bros. Pictures
All Critics (8) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (3) | DVD (1)
The best darn movie of the seventies you've never seen.
Back in 1974, this type of frenetic crud was considered to be popular entertainment.
Caan and Arkin have great chemistry and the vehicle stunts are spectacular in this entertaining, very 1970s buddy-cop movie.
Thoroughly awesome, the first real buddy cop film is also one of the best. Totally ridiculous and full of shenanigans.
June 10, 2007Super Reviewer
I don't really know if Freebie and the Bean classifies as the first buddy cop film, but if it is, it's the best one I've ever seen. It's hard to believe that a comedy like this starring Alan Arkin and James Caan as a duo was ever made, but it was. The dialogue feels fresh and must have been adlibbed. The caper isn't
February 4, 2010
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