Rolling Stone Menu ‘Turner & Hooch’: A Dog Has His Day Again
In this Disney+ sequel series to the 1989 Tom Hanks movie, a four-legged crime-fighter steals the show
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In 1989, just months after he earned his first Oscar nomination for
Big, and a few years before he went on a run of critical and commercial success that’s nearly unrivaled in the history of cinema, Tom Hanks starred in a series of middling movies that never would’ve suggested the megastar he’d become. One of these was
Turner & Hooch, which starred Hanks as fastidious small-town cop Scott Turner, whose life is upended when he takes in a big, messy French mastiff named Hooch. It was a modest success, but reviews were mixed, and many audience members seemed more charmed by Beasley the Dog than by the human acting alongside him. Heck, it wasn’t even the most popular movie of that year to pair a comic actor with a police dog: Jim Belushi’s