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Dead Heat
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Dead Heat

1988

You can't keep a good cop dead.

Directed by Mark Goldblatt

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Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.

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Written by
Terry Black
Cinematographer
Robert D. Yeoman
Makeup FX
Steve Johnson
Origin country
United States
Runtime
1h 24m
Language
en
Rating
R
TMDB
6.2/10 (233 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
11% Rotten
IMDb
6.1/10 (9,482 votes)
Released May 6, 1988·$5,000,000 budget·$3,588,626 revenue

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