Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is a street-wise cop from Detroit who - against his boss's orders - goes "on vacation" to Beverly Hills, California to solve his best friend's murder... drawing the ire of the very by-the-book police department there.
Michael Yeager joins me this week to discuss 1984's biggest hit movie: Paramount Pictures' Beverly Hills Cop, co-starring Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Steven Berkoff, Lisa Eilbacher, Paul Reiser, and Ronny Cox.
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