To Live and Die in L.A.
Director: William Friedkin
Genre: Thriller, Indie, Action, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Action/Adventure, Action Thrillers, Drama
Year: 1985
Country: United States of America
Language: Spanish Language, Arabic Language, English Language
Starring: William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Dean Stockwell, John Turturro, Darlanne Fluegel, Debra Feuer, Michael Greene, Jane Leeves, Christopher Allport
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) is an American neo-noir thriller film directed by William Friedkin and based on the novel by former U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, who co-wrote the screenplay with Friedkin. The film features William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, and John Pankow, among others. Wang Chung composed and performed the original music soundtrack. The film tells the story of the lengths to which two Secret Service agents go to arrest a counterfeiter.
Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart are United States Secret Service agents with the Treasury Department, assigned as counterfeiting investigators in its Los Angeles field office. They help guard President Ronald Reagan (heard off-camera, giving a speech, but not actually seen) while he is in L.A., and together foil a terrorist bombing assassination attempt against the President.
Chance has a reputation in the department for reckless behavior, including bungee jumping (then relatively unknown), and we find out that Hart is three days away from retirement. Alone, Hart stakes out and investigates a warehouse in the desert thought to be a print house of expert counterfeiter Rick Masters. After Hart is killed by Masters and his
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