Rent-A-Cop was a 1987 action / comedy / crime film starring Burt Reynolds and Liza Minnelli. Reynolds plays a disgraced police officer now working as a security guard who falls in with Minnelli, who plays a prostitute.
The film helped both lead actors to be nominated for the 1988 Golden Raspberry Awards, for "Worst Actor" and "Worst Actress". (These nominations were not solely on the merits of Rent-A-Cop, however; Reynolds and Minnelli were also cited for Switching Channels and Arthur 2: On the Rocks, respectively.)
The film earned under US$300,000 in American ticket sales. IMDb lists the film as having debuted in 1987, as the movie came out in West Germany in November 1987, two months before its American premiere.
When call-girl Della (Liza Minnelli) gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber that busted in on the drug agents and the drug dealers. She gets rescued by vice cop Church (Burt Reynolds) who is accused of staging the aborted bust. Ex-ballplayer turned drug dealer Roger (Richard Masur) is in tight with corrupt vice cops and their superiors And the fireworks start popping. Written by Richard Jones
Detective Tony Church is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop when his drug sting operation comes to a tragic end by a masked killer. He joins forces with a prostitute, the only one able to identify the killer, to bring him to justice. Written by Ary Luiz Dalazen Jr.
