The Heat

Director: Paul Feig, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping

Overview

Director Paul Feig reteams with Melissa McCarthy, the breakout star from Bridesmaids, adding Sandra Bullock to the mix for the action comedy The Heat. The story begins when egotistical, ambitious FBI agent Sarah Ashburn (Bullock) is promised consideration for a big promotion if she can bring down a drug lord setting up shop in Boston, she's forced to team with loud-mouthed local cop Shannon Mullins (McCarthy). The two hate each other at first sight, but as they dig deeper into the mysterious identity of their prey, they forge an abiding respect and friendship.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/15/2013
UPC:	0024543866183
Original Release:	2013
Rating:	R
Source:	20TH CENT
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:57:00
Sales rank:	1,196

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Sandra Bullock	Sarah Ashburn
Melissa McCarthy	Shannon Mullins
Demi?n Bichir	Actor
Marlon Wayans	Actor
Michael Rapaport	Actor
Jane Curtin	Actor
Spoken Reasons	Actor
Dan Bakkedahl	Actor
Taran Killam	Actor
Michael McDonald	Actor
Peter Weireter	Actor
John Ross Bowie	Actor
William Xifaras	Actor
Cary "Big Shug" Guy	Actor
Erica Derrickson	Actor
Tony Hale	Actor
Deirdre Horgan Aska	Actor,Actor
William A. Kennedy	Actor
Tony V.	Actor
Amanda Good Hennessey	Actor
Patty Ross	Actor
Kaitlin Olson	Actor
Ellen Becker-Gray	Actor
Andy Buckley	Actor
Don Orsillo	Actor
Adam Ray	Actor
Chris Gethard	Actor
Joey McIntyre	Actor
Michael B. Tucci	Actor
Bill Burr	Actor
Nathan Corddry	Actor
Jessica Chaffin	Actor
Jamie Denbo	Actor
Miriam Tolan	Actor
Alexis Garcia	Actor
Raw Leiba	Actor
Ben Falcone	Actor
Joe Stapleton	Actor
Steve Bannos	Actor
Fletcher McTaggart	Actor
Zachary Woods	Actor
Joe Garland	Actor
Thomas B. Devlin	Actor
Benjamin Evett	Actor
Elliott Santiago	Actor
Mitch Silpa	Actor
Luis Da Silva Jr.	Actor
Steve Grodewald	Actor
Katie Dippold	Actor
Turner Hagan	Actor
Lance Norris	Actor
Brent White	Actor
Thomas F. Wilson	Actor
Tom Wilson	Captain Woods
Michael Andrews	Composer

Technical Credits

Katie Dippold

Katie Dippold	Screenwriter
Jenno Topping	Producer
Peter Chernin	Producer
Paul Feig	Executive Producer,Producer
Michele Imperator Stabile	Executive Producer
Dylan Clark	Executive Producer,Producer
Casey Hotchkiss	Camera Operator
Allison Jones	Casting
Vincent T. Schicchi	Makeup Special Effects
Jeffrey Lee Gibson	Stunts
Michele Imperato	Executive Producer,Producer
Derek Casari	Sound Effects
Julie Altus	Sound Effects
David Betancourt	Sound Effects
Tom Sierchio	Stunts
Michele Imperato Stabile	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Heat
1. Scene 1 [1:46]
2. Scene 2 [3:42]
3. Scene 3 [1:47]
4. Scene 4 [3:31]
5. Scene 5 [2:51]
6. Scene 6 [:23]
7. Scene 7 [1:57]
8. Scene 8 [3:04]
9. Scene 9 [2:18]
10. Scene 10 [1:14]
11. Scene 11 [2:36]
12. Scene 12 [3:53]
13. Scene 13 [3:55]
14. Scene 14 [2:19]
15. Scene 15 [1:06]
16. Scene 16 [1:38]
17. Scene 17 [5:07]
18. Scene 18 [:15]
19. Scene 19 [2:59]
20. Scene 20 [5:00]
21. Scene 21 [:06]
22. Scene 22 [3:07]
23. Scene 23 [2:35]
24. Scene 24 [2:08]
26. Scene 26 [2:21]
25. Scene 25 [2:27]
27. Scene 27 [3:47]
28. Scene 28 [3:52]
29. Scene 29 [2:16]
30. Scene 30 [1:31]
31. Scene 31 [4:28]
32. Scene 32 [:10]
33. Scene 33 [3:10]
34. Scene 34 [1:45]
35. Scene 35 [2:30]
36. Scene 36 [:19]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Heat
Play
Set Up
Audio
English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Descriptive Audio Dolby Digital 5.1
Español Surround Dolby Digital 2.0
Français Surround Dolby Digital 2.0
The Commentary Track In Which The Director Of The Heat Talks Endlessly About The Heat
Subtitles
English For The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing
Español
Subtitles: Off
Scene
Extras
Welcome To The Bonus Features!
Let's Get Physical
Acting Master Class
Over And Out
The Commentary Track In Which The Director Of The Heat Talks Endlessly About The Heat
Sneak Peek
Play All
The Blu-Ray Experience
The Internship
The Way Way Back

Editorial Reviews

After director Paul Feig's Bridesmaids became a box-office smash in the summer of 2011, it seemed inevitable that there would be a flood of R-rated comedies aimed at the female audience. Sadly, for whatever reason, it was a trend that Hollywood didn't follow, at least not until 2013 when Feig returned with The Heat, an action comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as odd-couple cops that rivals Goodfellas for its use of F-bombs and Lethal Weapon for its appealing chemistry. When egotistical, ambitious FBI agent Sarah Ashburn (Bullock) is promised consideration for a big promotion if she can bring down a drug lord setting up shop in Boston, she's forced to team with loud-mouthed local cop Shannon Mullins (McCarthy). The two hate each other at first sight, but as they dig deeper into the mysterious identity of their prey, they forge an abiding respect and friendship. While Katie Dippold is credited with the screenplay for The Heat, it's hard not to give some share of the praise to Feig and McCarthy for the often vulgar, usually hilarious one-liners the characters shoot off with alarming regularity. This is the kind of comedy so full of funny asides that you're likely to miss more than a few jokes if you see it in a full theater because laughter drowns out some of the snappy follow-ups to the big gags. Feig is good with this kind of material, and his lead actresses have genuine comedic chemistry. Bullock, playing straitlaced and repressed, has done this before -- especially in the Miss Congeniality series -- but acting opposite someone as gleefully earthy as McCarthy gives Bullock a chance to send-up her girl-next-door persona without sacrificing her likability; the movie would not work nearly as well if these two actors switched parts. In addition to creating a pair of likable characters, Feig stages chases, explosions, and physical comedy so that they get the biggest laugh without making us think less of the characters. Early on, McCarthy's character gets into a foot chase with a young dealer and you expect the comedy to come from the ridiculousness of watching an overweight person run, but the movie figures out a comedically ingenious way to complicate things so that we are laughing at the situation rather than the character. In one of the best sequences, Sarah has to get the cell phone of a dealer so that she can plant a bug in it, and they try to obtain the device by flirting with him on the dance floor of a local club. It's a deftly edited sequence that gets laughs out of Bullock's awkwardness and McCarthy's brute force. The Heat is so well executed that you find yourself laughing at things that you know wouldn't be funny in other people's creative hands. Feig proved he had a talent for mixing comedy and pathos in Bridesmaids as well as on his beloved TV show Freaks and Geeks, and while The Heat certainly has just enough moments to make audience members go "awwwww" like they're looking at cat videos on YouTube, the actors and filmmakers earn these little moments because they never overplay them. The Heat is so consistently entertaining that you forgive the lapses in the plot. It's little more than an excuse for these award-winning actresses to charm us within the context of explosions, bloody emergency tracheotomies, and a steady stream of four-letter words. It's a crowd pleaser that should get a sequel as long as Bullock and McCarthy actually had as much fun making it as the finished film makes it look.