Genre Research

The genre of our film is Comedy, with highlights of action. The sub-genre of action comedy was not coined until the 1980's when actors famous for their comedic nature began taking part in action based films, such actors as Eddie Murphy. However the action in such films generally tends to be light-hearted and rarely involves death or serious injury, with the humour being based largely on slapstick comedy.
The earliest examples of action comedies are The Blues Brothers of 1980, 48 hrs in 1982 and Midnight Run in 1988, and, the later of the sub-genre, Bad Boys in 1995, Rush Hour in 1998 and - one we have looked into - Charlies Angles in 2000.

The main distributors of such films appear to be Columbia Pictures and New Line Cinema, both American film production and distribution companies.