The Nice Guys Dvd

The Nice Guys is a 2016 American neo-noir action comedy film directed by Shane Black and written by Black and Anthony Bagarozzi. The film stars Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Keith David and Kim Basinger. Set in 1977 Los Angeles, the film focuses on a private eye (Gosling) and a tough enforcer (Crowe) who team up to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl (Qualley).

The Nice Guys premiered on May 11, 2016, in Hollywood, and also screened on May 15 at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, before being released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on May 20, 2016. It received positive reviews from critics and grossed $62 million on a $50 million budget.

Plot

In 1977 Los Angeles, a young boy named Bobby admires a magazine centerfold of porn star Misty Mountains, when Misty herself crashes her car through the boy’s house and is found dead afterwards. Down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March is hired by Misty’s aunt, who claims to have seen her niece still alive. March’s investigation leads him to Amelia Kuttner, an associate of Misty’s who later pays enforcer Jackson Healy to scare March away. Healy barges into March’s house and breaks his arm before leaving.

Healy is interrogated by two thugs, “Blueface” — so named after he sets off a dye pack while searching Healy’s apartment — and Older Guy, about Amelia’s whereabouts. Healy wards them off with a shotgun, and teams up with a reluctant March to find Amelia first.

March and Healy question Amelia’s anti-pollution protest group and meet Chet, who brings them to the burnt-down house of Amelia’s boyfriend Dean, who died in the fire. They learn that Amelia and Dean were working with Misty on an “experimental film” — combining pornography and investigative journalism — called How Do You Like My Car, Big Boy? The two infiltrate a party in search of the film’s financier, Sid Shattuck. Healy discovers the film is missing, while a drunken March finds Shattuck dead, and unknowingly crosses paths with Amelia. March’s daughter Holly, having snuck along to the party, manages to stop Blueface from killing Amelia. Blueface is struck in a hit-and-run, and Amelia flees. Healy subdues Older Guy and finds Blueface dying, who tells Healy his boss has dispatched a hit man named John Boy to kill Amelia, March, and all other witnesses. Healy discreetly strangles Blueface to death. The police arrive at the scene, and March and Healy are met by Amelia’s mother, Judith Kuttner, a high-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice, who claims Amelia is delusional and believes Judith wants her dead. Judith hires the duo to find her daughter.

March and Healy make their way to an airport hotel where Amelia is meeting with distributors for the film. John Boy has arrived ahead of them; they witness the businessmen being slaughtered and hastily retreat, only for Amelia to land on their car and shoot at them, knocking herself unconscious. They take her to March’s house, where she reveals that her mother is in the pocket of the cartel-like Detroit automakers. After uncovering evidence that they suppressed the catalytic converter, which regulates exhaust emissions, Amelia created the film to expose their collusion, and her mother has had everyone connected to the film killed.

March tells Judith’s assistant Tally that Amelia has been found and is at March’s house. Tally tells them that Judith has requested they deliver a briefcase of $100,000 to Judith and informs them the family’s doctor will go to March’s house to check on Amelia. When March falls asleep while driving and crashes the car, the briefcase flies open to reveal shredded magazines; the delivery was a diversion to leave Amelia unprotected. John Boy arrives at March’s house disguised as the family doctor, attacking Holly and engaging in a shootout with March and Healy before evading the police. Amelia flees the house only to be killed by John Boy when she unwittingly flags down his car.

March and Healy are questioned by the police and then released. Having no evidence that Judith is behind the murders. March realizes that nearsighted Mrs. Glenn didn’t see Misty two days after her death; Mrs. Glenn saw Misty in a movie projected against a wall. At Misty’s house, they discover a film projector, but the film is missing. They realize that Chet is the projectionist for the Los Angeles Auto Show and will try to screen the film at the event. At the auto show, Healy and March are intercepted at gunpoint by Tally, who is distracted by Holly and knocked unconscious. Healy finds Chet, who has spliced the film into the auto show presentation. The film plays to the entire auto show, implicating the auto executives. On the roof, March struggles with Older Guy, who falls to his death while March lands in the pool. Holly stops Tally from reaching the film. Healy overpowers John Boy, but spares his life at Holly’s ultimatum, and March secures the film from thugs sent by the auto executives.

Judith is arrested, but insists she did not want Amelia killed and that it was Detroit who wanted Amelia dead. Judith hired March and Healy to keep Amelia safe. She quotes Charles Erwin Wilson, former Secretary of Defense, “What is good for Detroit is good for America.” She remarks that while she will go to jail, Detroit has still gotten away with trying to suppress the catalytic converter. Later, at a bar, March shows Healy an advertisement for their new detective agency called “The Nice Guys”.

Cast

Russell Crowe as Jackson Healy
Ryan Gosling as Holland March
Angourie Rice as Holly March
Matt Bomer as John Boy
Margaret Qualley as Amelia Kuttner
Yaya DaCosta as Tally
Keith David as Older Guy (Eddie Harris)
Beau Knapp as Blueface
Lois Smith as Mrs. Glenn
Murielle Telio as Misty Mountains
Gil Gerard as Bergen Paulsen
Daisy Tahan as Jessica
Jack Kilmer as Chet
Kim Basinger as Judith Kuttner
Lance Valentine Butler as Kid on Bike
Ty Simpkins as Bobby
Hannibal Buress as Bumble
Robert Downey Jr. as Sid Shattuck (uncredited)