Moonlighting (The Pilot) ( Moon lighting )

Moonlighting (The Pilot) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Moon lighting
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Robert Butler

Written By:
Marc Abraham
Glenn Gordon Caron

Actors:
Cybill Shepherd ..... Madelyn 'Maddie' Hayes
Bruce Willis ..... David Addison Jr.
Allyce Beasley ..... Agnes DiPesto
Robert Ellenstein ..... Heinz
Jim McKrell ..... Plastic Surgeon
James Karen ..... Alan
Rebecca Stanley ..... Susan Kaplan
Dennis Lipscomb ..... Simon
Frederick Coffin ..... Pawnbroker
Mary Hart ..... Herself
Henry G. Sanders ..... Investigator #1
Liz Sheridan ..... Selma
Dennis Stewart ..... Blond Mohawk
Joseph Whipp ..... Investigator #2
Jean Adams ..... Old Lady

Synopsis:

Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) is a stunning model who made a fortune as the girl in the Blue Moon Shampoo commercials. She was living like a media queen, complete with mansion, pool and personal chef... until her embezzling business manager robbed her of everything. Feeling desperate, she sets out to liquidate what little she has left, including a detective agency run by wise guy David Addison (Bruce Willis). His idea to save his posh job was to make Maddie his active partner and keep the company going. Like all opposites, the two dont agree on anything, fight over everything and discover a very strong attraction for each other. Add in a punk with a knife in his back, a vicious ex-Nazi, $4 million in long lost diamonds and suddenly David and Maddie are involved in a wild race of murder, mystery and suspense.

First telecast in early 1985, the pilot film for the lighthearted TV detective series Moonlighting opens with fashion model Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepard) discovering that her business manager has skipped with her fortune. The only asset she has left is the ramshackle Blue Moon Detective Agency, manned by acerbic David Addison (Bruce Willis). Maddie takes an immediate dislike to David, while he considers her a sexual conquest-to-be. The twosome continues to bicker their way through their first case, pausing for amenities only when it appears that both of them are about to be bumped off. Once safely back in the office, their verbal guerrilla warfare resumes, leading the viewer to expect marvelous things from the subsequent Moonlighting TV series. Little of the series' fabled self-consciousness (talking directly to the audience, making references to the quality of the scriptwriting, etc.) surfaces in the Moonlighting pilot, but the film works well despite this 'drawback.'

After being stripped of most of her financial assets by her embezzling accountant, former model Maddie Hayes discovers that she owns a number of money-losing businesses which were maintained as tax write-offs, including City of Angels detective agency. She decides to sell off the agency, to the dismay of David Addison, the wisecracking investigator who has been running it. David attempts to persuade her that the business has a future and should be kept open. Maddie accidentally comes into possession of a wristwatch which holds the clue to the location of a cache of smuggled Nazi diamonds. The pair retrieve the diamonds, but both the jewels and the criminal who was seeking them end up falling from the clock tower where the gems had been concealed.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.