Lethal Weapon (1987)
Directed by Richard Donner · Cinematography by Stephen Goldblatt
R109 min106 frames
ActionThrillerCrime
If these two can learn to stand each other... the bad guys don't stand a chance.
Stills, screencaps & shots from Lethal Weapon
16 of 106 frames — the full set is searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, color and mood with a free account.
Lethal Weapon — official trailer
What is Lethal Weapon about?
A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces.
Lethal Weapon is a 1987 American action thriller film directed by Richard Donner and written by Shane Black. Starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, the film follows two mismatched LAPD detectives—Martin Riggs (Gibson), a volatile former Special Forces soldier struggling with suicidal impulses after his wife's death, and Roger Murtaugh (Glover), a seasoned homicide sergeant and devoted family man—who are partnered to investigate a young woman's apparent suicide during the Christmas season. The supporting cast includes Gary Busey, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love, and Mitchell Ryan.
Second paragraph from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where can you watch Lethal Weapon?
FawesomeFree
Amazon VideoRent
Apple TV StoreRent
Google Play MoviesRent
YouTubeRent
Fandango At HomeRent
Spectrum On DemandRent
US availability for Lethal Weapon (1987). Data by JustWatch, listings on TMDB. Availability changes — check the provider for current listings.
Who stars in Lethal Weapon?
Who made Lethal Weapon?
What does the cinematography of Lethal Weapon look like?
Sampled across 106 frames, the coverage of Lethal Weapon leans on medium shots (46% of the sample) and close-ups (30%). Cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt keeps 55% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 42% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 73% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1980s.
What is the color palette of Lethal Weapon?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Lethal Weapon (1987) are #33312d, #55504b, #d4d1cb, #100f0d, #f6f6f6, #8a7b6e — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
#33312d#55504b#d4d1cb#100f0d#f6f6f6#8a7b6e
See the full Lethal Weapon colour palette — every hex with its share, plus warmth, saturation and luminance.
Lethal Weapon ranks in
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 106 frames of Lethal Weapon (1987), and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.
Techniques in this film
More films by Richard Donner
More Action films
Cast, trailer and streaming data from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.