---
title: 'The Rookie (1990)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Clint Eastwood'
released: '1990-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 121
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-rookie-1990'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100514/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Rookie (1990)

1990 · R · 121 min · Comedy, Action, Crime · United States


## Synopsis

The Rookie is a 1990 American buddy cop action thriller film directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Boaz Yakin and Scott Spiegel, and produced by Howard G. Kazanjian, Steven Siebert, and David Valdes. It stars Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sônia Braga, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Tom Skerritt. Eastwood plays a veteran police officer teamed with the rookie detective played by Sheen, whose intent is to take down a German crime lord in downtown Los Angeles, following months of investigation into an exotic car theft ring.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Clint Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/clint-eastwood)
- **Screenplay:** [Boaz Yakin](https://cinepixo.com/people/boaz-yakin), [Scott Spiegel](https://cinepixo.com/people/scott-spiegel)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Lennie Niehaus](https://cinepixo.com/people/lennie-niehaus)
- **Producer:** [Howard Kazanjian](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-kazanjian)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jack N. Green](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-n-green)
- **Editor:** [Joel Cox](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-cox)

## Cast

- [Roberta Vasquez](https://cinepixo.com/people/roberta-vasquez)
- [Sônia Braga](https://cinepixo.com/people/sonia-braga)
- [Coleby Lombardo](https://cinepixo.com/people/coleby-lombardo)
- [Joel Polis](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-polis)
- [Clint Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/clint-eastwood)
- [Lara Flynn Boyle](https://cinepixo.com/people/lara-flynn-boyle)
- [Tony Plana](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-plana)
- [Hal Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-williams)
- [Mara Corday](https://cinepixo.com/people/mara-corday)
- [Charlie Sheen](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlie-sheen)
- [Tom Skerritt](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-skerritt)
- [Paul Ben-Victor](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-ben-victor)
- [Raul Julia](https://cinepixo.com/people/raul-julia)

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