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    If You Give a Cop an Uber

    Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista are a lovable odd couple in <em>Stuber</em>, an old-school buddy comedy made for 2019.
    by David Sims Jul 12, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Mark Hill / 20th Century Fox

    Time was, a movie like didn’t stand out as an utter anomaly in the Hollywood landscape. Michael Dowse’s buddy-cop comedy has a premise ripped straight from such classics as , but with references updated for the 21st century. Vic Manning (played by Dave Bautista), a loose-cannon detective on the trail of a drug lord, commandeers an Uber from a mild-mannered guy named Stu (Kumail Nanjiani); the pair speed around Los Angeles and enjoy some jokey male bonding along the way. The film has everything you might

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