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Hot Pursuit is a 2015 American action comedy film directed by Anne Fletcher and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Written by David Feeney and John Quaintance, the story follows a police officer assigned to protect the widow of a drug boss from corrupt cops and criminals who want her dead as they race through Texas to avoid detection.
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It was a Saturday. Whether it was sunny or cloudy, hot or cold, I cannot remember, but I do remember it was a Saturday because the mall was packed with people. I was with my mom. Mom is short. Skinny. It is easy to overlook her in a crowd simply because she is nothing extraordinary to see. On that day we strolled down the slippery-slick tiles with ...
Illustration originally created for this Lives essayHolly Wales I never kissed the boy I liked behind the schoolyard fence that one March morning. I never had dinner with Katy Perry or lived in Kiev for two months either, but I still told my entire fourth-grade class I did. The words slipped through my teeth effortlessly. With one flick of my tongu...
When first I sat down in the small, pathetic excuse of a cafeteria the hospital had, I took a moment to reflect. I had been admitted the night before, rolled in on a stretcher like I had some sort of ailment that prevented me from walking. But the nurses in the ward were nice to me, especially when they saw that I wasnʼt going to be one of the viol...
It was my third time sitting there on the middle school auditorium stage. The upper chain of braces was caught in my lip again, and my palms were sweating, and my glasses were sliding down my nose. The pencil quivered in my hands. All I had to do was answer whatever question Mrs. Crisafulli, the history teacher, was going to say into that microphon...
Illustration originally created forthis Lives essayIllustration by Holly Wales “Mayfier? Marfir?” the tournament judge called squinting her eyes, trying to find the spelling error, although there was no error. “Itʼs Mafer. Itʼs a nickname for my full name, Maria Fernanda.” She stared at me blankly. “My parents are creative,” I lied, and she laughed...
Weʼre all average boys: hard working in school, spending every minute together in the summer, and doing our best to pretend we donʼt have a worry in the world. The facts are no different as the sun is beginning to set on a warm July evening. Sam and I say goodbye to Ben, stepping out of our best friendʼs house. “My sister is going to pick me up whi...
“Sorry, Wrong Number” by Michelle Ahn “Speechless” by Maria Fernanda Benavides “First Impressions” by Isabel Hui “Nothing Extraordinary” by Jeniffer Kim “Eggs and Sausage" by Ryan Young Kim “Pants on Fire” by Varya Kluev “The Man Box” by Gordon Lewis “Cracks in the Pavement” by Adam Bernard Sanders
“The First (and Last) Time Speedy Wasnʼt Speedy Enough” by Maya Berg “Searching for Air” by Sydney Do “Fear on My Mind” by Daytona Gerhardy “Under the Starry Sky” by Letian Li “Chinatown Diptych” by Jeffrey Liao “They” by Haven Low “The Vigil” by Beda Lundstedt “How My Brother Taught Me to Drive” by Sarah Shapiro
“The Six in Mid-August” by Liah Argiropoulos “‘Those Arenʼt Scratches Are They?ʼ” by Casey Barwick “Brown Is Beautiful” by Tiffany Borja “I Am Ordinary, After All” by Rebecca Braxley “Torn” by Melanie D. “The Stupid Seven” by Madeline G. “Speak No Evil” by Amita Goyal “Building My Crown” by Ambar Guzman “Me, Myself, and a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sa...
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May 8, 2015 · In Hot Pursuit, Reese Witherspoon stars as a straight-arrow cop who tries to protect a newly widowed drug dealer’s wife, played by Sofia Vergara, from bad guys on both sides of the law as they...
May 4, 2015 · The kind of “voice” Papandrea means—writing that expresses genuine observation and personality—is exactly what Hot Pursuit lacks. You can imagine its odd-couple gags about a fiery Latina and an uptight gringa being punched out on antique IBM cards from some primitive comedy database.
May 6, 2015 · Hot Pursuit is an anomalous product in Hollywood, a female-fronted, female-directed action comedy. The easiest comparisons are Paul Feig’s recent films (Bridesmaids, The Heat) that give a...
Hot Pursuit. Cooper (Reese Witherspoon) is a straight-laced Texas police officer who occasionally screws up on the job and has a habit of being clumsy, at her commanding officer's request Cooper is given the task of protecting a mob boss named Felipe Riva, who's testifying against a drug cartel and his wife Daniella (Sofía Vergara).
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May 2, 2015 · Q&A: Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara and director Anne Fletcher discuss their new comedy, 'Hot Pursuit,' and being a successful woman in Hollywood
