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Wednesday July 3

Film: BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F

Whoa, it’s back to the 80s with a good old-fashioned policeMurphy returns to his character of Axel Foley, who in turn is back in Beverly Hills to cause havoc again. “Things have changed,” new sidekick Bobby Abbott (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) tells Foley, but in keeping with the previous three movies, there are stunts, car crashes, explosions and shoot-outs. Judge Reinhold, John Ashton and Paul Reiser return also, but other new cast members include Kevin Bacon and Taylour Paige, who plays Foley’s daughter, Jane. Father-of-10 Murphy is arrested in the film by one of his daughters.

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