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Overview

User Rating:
7.6/10   72,682 votes
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Director:
Antoine Fuqua
Writer (WGA):
David Ayer (written by)
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Release Date:
5 October 2001 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
Boom Ba-Boom, Boom, Boom... more
Plot:
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears as. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 13 wins & 12 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(176 articles)
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Denzel's Acadamy Award Winning Moment more (552 total)

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for brutal violence, pervasive language, drug content and brief nudity.
Runtime:
122 min
Country:
USA | Australia
Colour:
Colour (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Alonzo Harris's (Denzel Washington) house in Training Day is the same house used as Janiece's (Tamala Jones) house in Blue Streak (1999) with Martin Lawrence. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: After Alonzo steals the money from Sandman's wife and during the subsequent shootout between Alonzo and the residents gang members, you see the gang members run after Alonzo's car while firing their handguns. You'll notice the gangsters, who are wearing their baggy pants in they typical gangster fashion (loose and low, around their buttocks, with their underwear exposed), are running and their pants are not falling down. In reality, there is no way their pants would stay up while running like that. more
Quotes:
[Bone is smoking a cigarette with his friends]
Bone: You got business here, Rookie?
Jake Hoyt: I'm here for Alonzo.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross: (#11.13)" (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Last Resort more

FAQ

Why did Hoyt go to such trouble to stop a corrupt police officer but then keep the stolen money for himself?
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68 out of 96 people found the following comment useful.
Denzel's Acadamy Award Winning Moment, 31 January 2006
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Author: Tantive7 (Tantive7@hotmail.com) from Brooklyn New York

In his Acadamy Award Winning Performance,as best Actor.The movie, as the title suggests, follows a single day in the life of rookie cop Jake Hoyt (Hawk) as he is subject to a single day of evaluation by a senior, decorated police narcotics officer Alonzo Harris (Washington) to see if he has what it takes to be a 'narc'. Almost immediately Hoyt is placed on the back foot, constantly caught off guard by Alonzo's nature, his ability to switch between a cold, no-nonsense street-wise player, a genuinely caring and good intentioned leader, and occasionally jovial companion. From their first encounters though, where Hoyt tells Harris he will do "anything you want me to do", the situations Hoyt is taken into become more and more morally ambiguous, from the simple use of excessive force to outright illegal activity, forcing Hoyt to decide which side Harris is truly on, whether to trust him, or whether Hoyt is the unwitting centerpiece of a huge and complex web of lies and set-ups in order for Harris to for fill his own sinister motives..This is the movie that won Denzel the Oscar that year for Best Actor!! A must watch

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