The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1984 features the top-grossing film at the box office, Martin Brest’s Beverly Hills Cop. Directed by Martin Brest from a screenplay by Daniel Petrie Jr. and starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Ronny Cox and Steven Berkoff, Beverly Hills Cop grossed $316.4 million worldwide and launched an ongoing franchise.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/beverly-hills-cop-1984), Janet Maslin in the New York Times (https://web.archive.org/web/20121003041657/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E05E1D71438F936A35751C1A962948260), and Kirk Ellis in TheHollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/beverly-hills-cop-1984-review-952752).

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