Tango and Cash are two L.A. narcotics
cops that go together like caviar and French fries.
Dressed in three-piece suits and
glasses, Tango is the suave policeman.
In his $9 shirts
and jeans, Cash is his salt-of-the-earth rival on the
force. Each has spent his days and nights cracking down
on drug dealers -- to the fury of crime boss Yves Perret.
Perret and his
gang frame the two cops and have them sent to prison. It
turns out Tango and Cash don't get along any better
behind bars than they did in the station house. They
trade insults, and they protest having to shower
together. But when the ruling underground goons of the
penitentiary torture them, Tango and Cash join forces to
overthrow the prison menace, and, in the process,
escape.
Once free, they
pursue Perret and attempt to destroy his cartel for
good. And, ruffling Tango's feathers, Cash also gets
involved with Tango's sister, Kiki, an exotic dancer.
Two swellheaded
cops, one with a dapper image and one a gung-ho basher,
must bury their enmity in order to work together when
they are framed for murder by a ruthless international
crime lord.
Albert Magnoli
completed the directing chores of this film, after
Andrei Konchalovsky left the film!!
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