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Observe and Report
Observe and Report is a 2009 American crime comedy film written and directed by Jody Hill and starring Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, and Ray Liotta. It follows a mentally unstable vigilante mall cop who attempts to join the police academy and pursues a flasher tormenting female visitors to the mall where he works. It premiered at SXSW on March 16, 2009 and was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 10, 2009, and received mixed reviews from critics, while it grossed $27 million against an $18 million budget.
An anonymous flasher exposes himself to shoppers in the Forest Ridge Mall parking lot. The head of mall security Ronnie Barnhardt makes it his mission to apprehend the offender. But while he is ostensibly well-intentioned and valiant in his own mind, in reality he is emotionally unstable and has vigilante tendencies. Ronnie apparently experiences bipolar disorder and delusions of grandeur and displays violent ideation, among other problems.
The criminal activity at the mall continues as the flasher exposes himself to makeup counter worker Brandi and a masked robber causes property damage at a shoe store. In both instances, police Detective Harrison arrives to investigate. He and Ronnie dislike each other, as Ronnie believes Harrison is taking over his proper role as investigator and the detective believes he is disrupting the investigation.
Ronnie decides to take steps to become a police officer. As part of his preparations, he decides to do a ride-along with Harrison. The detective tricks him into walking into the most dangerous part of town and drives off. Ronnie then confronts and assaults several drug dealers, victoriously returning to the police station with a dealer's son and thanking Harrison for the opportunity to prove himself.
Emboldened, Ronnie arranges a date with Brandi. On their date, she sees him taking a clonazepam for mental health reasons and assumes that he takes them recreationally. She asks him to share and he gives her the entire bottle, believing he no longer needs it. Ronnie takes her home and rapes her while she is semi-conscious.
Ronnie passes the background check and physical examination for the police officer job, but fails the psychological examination. Nell, a friendly food court worker, tearfully tells Ronnie that her coworker Trina and boss Roger tease her for having her leg in a cast. Ronnie beats Roger up and warns him and Trina not to harass Nell again.
Depressed, Ronnie is persuaded by fellow security officer Dennis to spend the day doing a wide variety of drugs and assaulting skateboarding teenagers. At the end of the day, Dennis reveals that he is the one who has been stealing from the mall. Ronnie insists this is wrong and, after a brief argument, Dennis knocks him unconscious and flees.
Ronnie decides to go undercover to catch the flasher, but when he catches Brandi having sex with Harrison in the parking lot, he confronts her in front of onlookers at the mall the next day, blowing his cover and destroying a display case. The police are summoned and Ronnie fights them off, defeating the regular officers, until he is overpowered by Harrison and arrested.
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Observe and Report
Observe and Report is a 2009 American crime comedy film written and directed by Jody Hill and starring Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, and Ray Liotta. It follows a mentally unstable vigilante mall cop who attempts to join the police academy and pursues a flasher tormenting female visitors to the mall where he works. It premiered at SXSW on March 16, 2009 and was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 10, 2009, and received mixed reviews from critics, while it grossed $27 million against an $18 million budget.
An anonymous flasher exposes himself to shoppers in the Forest Ridge Mall parking lot. The head of mall security Ronnie Barnhardt makes it his mission to apprehend the offender. But while he is ostensibly well-intentioned and valiant in his own mind, in reality he is emotionally unstable and has vigilante tendencies. Ronnie apparently experiences bipolar disorder and delusions of grandeur and displays violent ideation, among other problems.
The criminal activity at the mall continues as the flasher exposes himself to makeup counter worker Brandi and a masked robber causes property damage at a shoe store. In both instances, police Detective Harrison arrives to investigate. He and Ronnie dislike each other, as Ronnie believes Harrison is taking over his proper role as investigator and the detective believes he is disrupting the investigation.
Ronnie decides to take steps to become a police officer. As part of his preparations, he decides to do a ride-along with Harrison. The detective tricks him into walking into the most dangerous part of town and drives off. Ronnie then confronts and assaults several drug dealers, victoriously returning to the police station with a dealer's son and thanking Harrison for the opportunity to prove himself.
Emboldened, Ronnie arranges a date with Brandi. On their date, she sees him taking a clonazepam for mental health reasons and assumes that he takes them recreationally. She asks him to share and he gives her the entire bottle, believing he no longer needs it. Ronnie takes her home and rapes her while she is semi-conscious.
Ronnie passes the background check and physical examination for the police officer job, but fails the psychological examination. Nell, a friendly food court worker, tearfully tells Ronnie that her coworker Trina and boss Roger tease her for having her leg in a cast. Ronnie beats Roger up and warns him and Trina not to harass Nell again.
Depressed, Ronnie is persuaded by fellow security officer Dennis to spend the day doing a wide variety of drugs and assaulting skateboarding teenagers. At the end of the day, Dennis reveals that he is the one who has been stealing from the mall. Ronnie insists this is wrong and, after a brief argument, Dennis knocks him unconscious and flees.
Ronnie decides to go undercover to catch the flasher, but when he catches Brandi having sex with Harrison in the parking lot, he confronts her in front of onlookers at the mall the next day, blowing his cover and destroying a display case. The police are summoned and Ronnie fights them off, defeating the regular officers, until he is overpowered by Harrison and arrested.