The Last Boy Scout

About The Last Boy Scout

The Last Boy Scout is a 1991 action movie starring Bruce Willis as a former Secret Service agent, now working as a private detective, and Damon Wayans as a retired professional football player. The two join forces to solve the murder of Wayan’s girlfriend (played by then-unknown Halle Berry). The movie was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Geffen Pictures and directed by Tony Scott.

Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbeck, a private detective and retired U.S. Secret Service agent who discovers that his wife is having an affair with his best friend and sometime business partner, Mike (Bruce McGill). The same morning, Mike is killed in a mysterious car explosion after giving Joe an assignment to act as bodyguard for a stripper named Cory (Halle Berry). Joe immediately crosses paths with Cory's over-protective boyfriend, former football star James Alexander "Jimmy" Dix (Damon Wayans), who had been banned from professional football on gambling and drug possession charges. When thugs attack Joe and kill Cory in front of Jimmy Dix's eyes, Jimmy and Joe team up to solve her murder.

The investigation turns out to tie together the professional pasts of both Jimmy and Joe. Jimmy, it turns out, had to retire from professional football after a sports injury led to an addiction to painkillers, which in turn led to a possibly bogus gambling charge that ended his career. Joe, meanwhile, used to be a respected agent in the Secret Service and even once saved President Jimmy Carter's life, before his career was ended when he punched a protectee in the face, upon discovering that the corrupt Senator Calvin Baynard was physically abusing one of his one night stands.