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[[File:live_and_5782.jpg|frame| The ''real'' stars of the movie]]
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The film stars [[CSI|William Petersen]] as Secret Service agent Richard Chance, a [[Cowboy Cop]] type determined to take down Rick Masters ([[Willem Dafoe]]), the counterfeiter who [[Dead Sidekick|shot Chance's partner]]. It also features an exceptionally '80s soundtrack by [[Wang Chung]].▼
▲''To Live and Die in LA'' is a 1985 American crime-thriller film, based on the novel of the same name by Gerald Petievich and directed by [[William Friedkin]] (''[[The Exorcist]]'', ''[[The French Connection]]'').
▲The film stars [[CSI|William Petersen]] as Secret Service agent Richard Chance, a [[Cowboy Cop]] type determined to take down Rick Masters ([[Willem Dafoe]]), the counterfeiter who [[Dead Sidekick|shot Chance's partner]]. It also features an exceptionally '80s soundtrack by Wang Chung.
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* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Bob Grimes (Dean Stockwell) doesn't particularly care that Masters is a criminal and argues that he's just doing the job someone else would; when he helps the cops later on, he's solely looking out for his own neck and his own wallet. {{spoiler|Until it's revealed that he was trying to manipulate Vukovich on Masters' behalf the whole time.}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Chance is either a firm Type V or a ''very dark'' Type IV.
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