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Loaded Weapon 1
DVD cover for Loaded Weapon 1.
Directed by	Gene Quintano
Produced by	Suzanne Todd David Willis
Written by	Gene Quintano Don Holley Tori Tellem
Starring	Emilio Estevez Samuel L. Jackson Kathy Ireland Frank McRae Tim Curry William Shatner
Music by	Robert Folk
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	February 5, 1993
Running time	84 min.
Language	English
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (also known as Loaded Weapon 1) is a 1993 comedy film, directed by Gene Quintano and starring Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson and William Shatner.

The film mainly spoofed the plot of Lethal Weapon 2 but also referred to movies such as Basic Instinct, Die Hard, Dirty Harry, and 48 Hrs.. One scene parodied Clarice Starling's first meeting with Dr. Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs.

Los Angeles detective Billie York (Whoopi Goldberg, uncredited) is murdered because she possesses a microfilm with the recipe to turn cocaine into cookies and she won't hand it over to the ones that seek it. Detective Wes Luger (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the case in an attempt to avenge the death of his former partner. As part of the terms for letting Luger taking the case, psychotic burned-out narcotic agent Jack Colt (Emilio Estevez) is assigned to the case with Luger. They pursue the villains Lethal Weapon style. Before the villains are apprehended however, Luger must journey into his past to realize the right thing to do. In the end, the Cookie Factory is destroyed in an explosion due to a cigarette and a gasoline spill.

Taglines:

• Oh my God! They have guns!
• Don't Shoot, You'll Spoil The Sequel!
• See it before they make the sequel.
• We'd like to have been nominated for 9 ACADEMY AWARDS.
• Oh my God! They're on video!
• Rent it before someone else does.

• Emilio Estevez - Sgt. Jack Colt
• Samuel L. Jackson - Sgt. Wes Luger
• Jon Lovitz - Becker
• Tim Curry - Mr. Jigsaw
• Kathy Ireland - Miss Destiny Demeanor
• Frank McRae - Captain Doyle
• William Shatner - General Curtis Mortars
• F. Murray Abraham - Dr. Harold Leacher

• James Doohan - Scotty
• Erik Estrada - Officer Francis Poncherello
• Larry Wilcox - Officer Jon Baker
• Corey Feldman - Young Cop
• Paul Gleason - FBI Agent Dwayne T. Robinson
• Whoopi Goldberg (uncredited) - Sgt. Billy York
• Phil Hartman - Officer Davis
• Denis Leary - Mike McCracken
• Richard Moll - Prison Attendant
• Denise Richards - Cindy #1
• Charlie Sheen - Valet
• J.T. Walsh - Desk Clerk
• Bruce Willis (uncredited) - John McClane
• Allyce Beasley - Spinach Destiny
• Dr. Joyce Brothers - Medical Examiner
• Christopher Lambert (uncredited) - Man with Car Phone

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox appear in their CHiPs roles during a shootout scene. Yet in the entire six-year run of CHiPs, they never once drew their weapons.
• When the German soldiers talk to each other, a subtitle is "Relax, only a psychotic, burned out cop would try to break in." But the actual line is, "Relax, only an ape would come in here."

• Paul Gleason played FBI Agent Dwayne T. Robinson in this film, while in Die Hard he plays Deputy Chief Dwayne T. Robinson and has a line "We're gonna need some more FBI guys I guess."

• There was every intention to make a sequel to this movie. A deal had been set in place before this movie had gone into production and a poster had even been printed with the caption "Oh come ON, you knew it was coming!" However when the movie underperformed the deal was severed.

• A closer look at the wall of torture and instruments of pain will show a mounted VHS case of the George Lucas-produced film Howard the Duck.

• During the war of words between General Mortars and McCracken, McCracken tries to win the argument with the line "Life is very short and there is no time for fussin' and fightin', my friend!" a line from The Beatles song "We Can Work It Out".

• Moonlighting's Bruce Willis and Allyce Beasley make a cameo in this film. Bruce as his character from the Die Hard movies John McClane and Allyce as Spinach Destiny.

• Loaded Weapon 1 at the Internet Movie Database