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The Heat (film)

The HeatTheatrical release poster

Directed by Paul Feig

Produced by Peter CherninJenno Topping

Written by Katie Dippold

Starring Sandra BullockMelissa McCarthyDemián BichirMarlon WayansMichael RapaportJane CurtinDan BakkedahlTaran KillamMichael McDonaldTom Wilson

Music by Mike Andrews

Cinematography Robert Yeoman

Editing by Brent WhiteBellah MaeJay Deuby

Studio CherninEntertainmentDune Entertainment

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Release date(s) •• June 28, 2013

Running time 117 minutes

Country United States

Language English

Budget $43 million

Box office $229,306,272

The Heat is a 2013 American action comedy film written by Katie Dippold and directed by Paul Feig. The plotcenters on Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn and Boston DetectiveShannon Mullins, who must take down a mobster. The film was released in the United States and Canada on June28, 2013 to both critical and commercial success.

PlotFBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is a very skilled and effective investigator, but is despised by her fellow agents for her arrogance and condescending attitude. Hale, Ashburn's boss at the New York FBI field office who is being promoted, sends her to Boston to investigate a drug kingpin named Larkin with the promise that she would be considered as his replacement if she can solve the case while showing the ability to work effectively with others. Once in Boston, she is partnered with Shannon Mullins, a skilled but foulmouthed and rebellious police officer with

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the Boston Police Department. Ashburn's by-the-book philosophy clashes with Mullins' rugged and violent style ofpolice work. Mullins discovers the details of the Larkin case by stealing the case file from Ashburn and insists onhelping her. Ashburn reluctantly agrees, realizing that she needs Mullins' knowledge of the local area.Ashburn and Mullins follow leads to a local night club owner and successfully place a bug on his cell phone. As theyleave the club, Ashburn and Mullins are confronted by two DEA agents, Craig and Adam, who have been workingthe Larkin case for several months and are worried that their case will be compromised. After viewing him on ascreen in the DEA agents' surveillance van, Ashburn discovers that Mullins' brother, Jason, was recently releasedfrom prison, having been put there by Mullins herself, and may be connected to Larkin's organization. Ashburnconvinces Mullins to go to her parents' home to ask Jason for information on Larkin. On their arrival at the home, itbecomes apparent that Mullins' parents and two other brothers still harbor deep resentment for Mullins' involvementin Jason's incarceration. Jason, who does not have any ill feelings toward his sister, tips her off about the body of amurdered drug dealer hidden in an abandoned car. Upon examination of the body, chemicals on the victim's shoeslead Ashburn and Mullins to an abandoned paint factory, where they witness a drug dealer being murdered by amember of Larkin's organization named Julian. The two apprehend Julian and interrogate him regarding Larkin, butare unable to extract any substantial information regarding Larkin's whereabouts.The pair spends the evening in a bar bonding over several rounds of drinks. After a night of raucous drinking andpartying, Ashburn wakes up the following morning to discover that, in her drunkenness, she has given her car keysto one of the bar patrons. After unsuccessfully pleading for the keys, Ashburn watches, along with Mullins, as the carexplodes upon being started, having been fitted with a bomb. During the investigation of the explosion, the twodiscover that Julian has escaped from custody and may mean to harm Mullins' family. Mullins moves the family intoa motel, but learns that Jason has joined with the Larkin organization in an attempt to aid the case. Jason gives her atip about a drug shipment coming in to Boston Harbor. The FBI sets up a sting at the harbor to take down theshipment, but discovers that the ship they have been waiting for is actually only a pleasure cruise ship and Jason hasbeen set up by Larkin. Knowing that he informed the FBI about the supposed drug shipment, Larkin attempts to haveJason killed, but only puts him into a coma.Mullins vows to bring her brother's attacker to justice. Ashburn and Mullins learn of a warehouse where Larkinhouses his operations. After equipping themselves with assault equipment from Mullins' extensive personal arsenal,the two infiltrate the warehouse. Despite taking out several of Larkin's men with a hand grenade, the two women arecaptured and bound by Julian, who threatens to torture them with knives. Julian is called away by Larkin, but beforehe leaves the room, he stabs Ashburn in the leg with one of the knives. Mullins removes the knife from Ashburn's legand uses it to cut the rope binding her hands. Before she can finish freeing herself and Ashburn, they are discoveredby Craig and Adam. Craig begins to untie the two women, but is shot and killed by Adam. Ashburn and Mullinsdeduce that Adam is actually Larkin, having been working his own case from inside the DEA for several months.Julian reenters and is instructed by Larkin to kill Ashburn and Mullins while he goes to the hospital to kill Jason.After Larkin leaves, Mullins, whose hands have already been untied, manages to finish freeing herself and Ashburnincapacitates Julian with a head butt. Mullins then frees Ashburn and the two race to the hospital to save Jason.Upon their arrival, Mullins rushes to find Jason. Ashburn, hindered by the stab wound in her leg, is unable to movequickly. Mullins finds Jason's room, only to discover Larkin standing over his bed with a syringe, intending to killJason by injecting air into his vein, causing his death by an air embolism. Mullins drops her weapon in an attempt tosave her brother's life. Ashburn, having had to crawl to the room, then enters and subdues Larkin by shooting him inthe genitals. With Larkin captured, Ashburn requests to stay in the FBI's Boston field office, having developed astrong friendship with Mullins. Jason is shown having fully recovered from his coma. The film ends with Mullinsreceiving a commendation from the Boston Police Department, with her family present cheering for her, havingreconciled with her.Afterwards, following a misunderstanding earlier in the film, Mullins brings Ashburn her neighbor's cat, afterbelieving that it was hers from a picture in her house.

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Cast

Bullock at the UK gala screening of The Heat inJune 2013.

• Sandra Bullock as Special Agent Sarah Ashburn, FBI• Melissa McCarthy as Detective Shannon Mullins, Boston Police

Department• Demián Bichir as Hale• Marlon Wayans as Levy• Michael Rapaport as Jason Mullins• Jane Curtin as Mrs. Mullins• Dan Bakkedahl as Special Agent Craig, DEA• Taran Killam as Special Agent Adam Larkin, DEA• Michael McDonald as Julian• Tom Wilson as Captain Woods• Tony Hale as The John• Nathan Corddry as Michael Mullins• Kaitlin Olson as Tatiana• Bill Burr as Mark Mullins• Andy Buckley as Robin• Lance Norris as Scruffy bar patron• Ben Falcone as Blue-collar man• Jamie Denbo as Beth• Jessica Chaffin as Gina• Steve Bannos as Wayne• Raw Leiba as Paint factory henchman• Joey McIntyre as Peter Mullins• Paul Feig as Doctor• John Ross Bowie as FBI officer

ProductionThe Heat is screenwriter Katie Dippold's feature film debut. Dippold wrote the spec script on the side while fulfillingwriting duties on Parks and Recreation and ultimately sold it to producer Peter Chernin for $600,000 prior to evenbeing presented to prospective bidders. Inspired by the buddy cop film genre, primarily examples such as RunningScared (1986) and Lethal Weapon (1987), Dippold set out to write a film in which the leads were portrayed bywomen. As Dippold explains, "[In] Running Scared, they go down to the Caribbean and there's this montage of themon scooters, and there's a different hot girl on the back every time it cuts back to the scooter. And it just felt like, Idon't want to be the girl on the back of the scooter. I want to be the awesome cop doing this stuff."Despite the success of Bridesmaids (2011), studio executives were still uncertain of an action film with a female-ledcast. "There were people suspicious of this attempt, who thought girls won't want to see a cop action movie and guyswon't want to see two girls holding guns and we'd cancel out our potential audience," said producer Jenno Topping."But we really believed, at the end of the day, it wouldn't be about gender as much as it would be about delivering acourageous action comedy with some heart to it.""I don't like women acting like men; then it's not serving anybody. That's why The Heat was really important to me. Because I didn'twant to do a romantic comedy. Even Bridesmaids had the romantic elements to it with the Chris O'Dowd relationship, which workedgreat. What I liked about this one was that it didn't have any of that. It's just two professional women in the workforce who are greatat their jobs and who are on this adventure."

—Paul Feig, explaining what drew him to the film.

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On May 19, 2012, director Paul Feig and actresses Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy signed on to the film afterpreviously struggling to close deals due to scheduling and payment conflicts. At this time, the film was called TheUntitled Female Buddy Cop Comedy.Principal photography for The Heat began on July 5, 2012 at Dudley Square in Boston, Massachusetts.

MusicOn October 10, 2012, it was announced that composer Michael Andrews would be composing the score to The Heat,having previously scored Feig's Bridesmaids and Unaccompanied Minors (2006). A soundtrack album containingsongs featured in the film was released on June 25, 2013 by Lakeshore Records. Of these songs, the album includes abrand new track entitled "Rock This" by Santigold. Describing why he chose the songs featured in the film, Feigsaid, "My favorite part of filmmaking is finding the perfect music to complement what's happening on screen. And Iwanted The Heat to feel like a party. I wanted the audience to have fun. And since I have to watch a movie hundredsof times as I'm making it, I wanted to use music that I wouldn't get tired of. Every song in this film is a desert islandsong for me. I will never get sick of them."

Release and receptionWhile originally intended to be released on April 5, 2013, Fox pushed back the release date to June 28, 2013. Thefilm held its world premiere in New York City on June 23, 2013.

Box officeThe Heat earned $39,115,043 in North American markets during its opening weekend. As of September 15, the filmhas grossed $158,015,132 in the domestic market and $60,515,000 internationally for a worldwide total of$218,530,132. The Heat was a box office success (from an estimated $43 million budget) and was also currently2013's highest-grossing comedy until We're the Millers topped it with $222,676,000.

Critical responseThe film has received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film ascore of 66% based on reviews from 161 reviews. The site's consensus is: "The Heat is predictable, but MelissaMcCarthy is reliably funny and Sandra Bullock proves a capable foil." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted averagescore out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 60 out of 100 based on 37 reviews,signifying mixed or favorable critiques.

Home mediaThe Heat was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on October 15, 2013. The Blu-ray features an unrated version ofthe film, along with several audio commentaries: one with McCarthy and director Feig; one with the actors whoportray the Mullins family; and one with the original Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew.

References

External links• Official website (http:/ / www. theheatmovie. com/ )• The Heat (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt2404463/ ) at the Internet Movie Database• The Heat (http:/ / www. boxofficemojo. com/ movies/ ?id=bullockmccarthy. htm) at Box Office Mojo• The Heat (http:/ / www. rottentomatoes. com/ m/ the_heat/ ) at Rotten Tomatoes• The Heat (http:/ / www. metacritic. com/ movie/ the-heat) at Metacritic

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• O'Hehir, Andrew. " “The Heat”: Police misconduct as feminism (http:/ / www. salon. com/ 2013/ 06/ 28/the_heat_police_misconduct_as_feminism/ )." Salon. June 28, 2013.

• The Heat (http:/ / thejournalist. ie/ entertainment/ film-review-the-bling-ring/ ) at The Journalist (http:/ /thejournalist. ie/ entertainment/ film-review-the-bling-ring/ )

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