Lethal Weapon 2

Lethal Weapon 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Richard Donner
Screenplay by	Jeffrey Boam
Story by	Shane Black Warren Murphy
Based on	Characters by Shane Black
Produced by	Richard Donner Joel Silver
Starring	Mel Gibson Danny Glover Joe Pesci Joss Ackland Derrick O'Connor Patsy Kensit
Cinematography	Stephen Goldblatt
Edited by	Stuart Baird
Music by	Michael Kamen Eric Clapton David Sanborn
Production company	Silver Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	July 7, 1989 (1989-07-07)
Running time	114 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Afrikaans
Budget	$30 million[1]
Box office	$227.9 million[2]

Lethal Weapon 2 is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor and Patsy Kensit. It is a sequel to the 1987 film Lethal Weapon and the second installment in the Lethal Weapon film series.

Gibson and Glover respectively reprise their roles as LAPD officers Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, who protect an irritating federal witness (Pesci), while taking on a gang of South African drug dealers hiding behind diplomatic immunity. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing (for Robert G. Henderson). The film received mostly positive reviews and earned more than $227 million worldwide.