Fatal Beauty

Director: Tom Holland
Genre: Thriller, Action, Comedy, Crime Fiction, Action/Adventure, Action Thrillers, Drama, Japanese Movies
Year: 1987
Country: Japan, United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Harris Yulin, Mark Pellegrino, Brad Dourif, Rubén Blades, Charles Hallahan, Neill Barry, James LeGros, John P. Ryan, Clayton Landey, Jennifer Warren, Fred Asparagus, Michael Champion, Cathianne Blore, Steve Akahoshi, David Harris, Mike Jolly, Richard Milholland, Cheech Marin

Fatal Beauty is a 1987 American action film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sam Elliott, directed by Tom Holland. The screenplay was written by Hilary Henkin and Dean Riesner. The original music score was composed by Harold Faltermeyer, of Top Gun fame. The film was marketed with the tagline "An earthquake is about to hit L.A. It's called Detective Rita Rizzoli."

Detective Rita Rizzoli (Whoopi Goldberg) is an undercover narcotics police officer who stages an undercover buy with drug dealer Tito Delgadillo, when during the bust she sees her friend and informant Charlene being dragged out of the bar by her pimp and runs to her aid, alerting Delgadillo of being an undercover cop. After saving Charlene and shooting the pimp, Rizzoli notices all the money used for the buy is missing. Delgadillo retreats to a warehouse in Los Angeles where a family of Asian immigrants is preparing plastic envelopes of imported cocaine stamped with the gang's brand name "Fatal Beauty". One worker, however, has been sampling too much of the drug and, in his intoxicated state, prepares envelopes with a fatally high concentration of cocaine and a misaligned stamp. Delgadillo discovers the error but before they

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