Michael Lehmann, fresh from hit flick Heathers, ran straight into one of cinema's most prolonged hate campaigns in history when Hudson Hawk tanked at the box-office. Clearly at the time, no one wanted to see hardman Bruce Willis as a showtune-singing cat burglar, refused Danny Aiello as his best buddy and vetoed Richard E Grant and Sandra Bernhard's camp baddies looking for DaVinci's alchemy machine.
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Actor filmographies, director's audio commentary. The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Wild Wild West and Armageddon: Hudson Hawk is better than any of them. By no means a masterpiece (Lehmann's self-effacing commentary admits as much), the Hawk is still cleverer, funnier and more innovative than many of the blockbusters that followed it. If you still have a soft spot for it, own a copy on the format that does it the most justice.
