The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Renny Harlin
Screenplay by	David Arnott James Cappe Daniel Waters
Story by	David Arnott James Cappe
Based on	Characters by Rex Weiner
Produced by	Steve Perry Joel Silver
Starring	Andrew Dice Clay Wayne Newton Priscilla Presley Morris Day Gilbert Gottfried Lauren Holly Maddie Corman Tone Loc Robert Englund Ed O'Neill
Cinematography	Oliver Wood
Edited by	Michael Tronick
Music by	Yello
Production company	Silver Pictures
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	July 11, 1990 (1990-07-11)
Running time	102 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$20 million[2]
Box office	$21.4 million[3]

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is a 1990 American action comedy film noir mystery film directed by Renny Harlin^[4] and written by David Arnott, James Cappe, and Daniel Waters based on a story by Arnott and Cappe. The film stars comedian Andrew Dice Clay as the title character, Ford Fairlane, a "Rock n' Roll Detective",^[5] whose beat is the music industry in Los Angeles. True to his name, Ford drives a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner in the film.

The film's main character was created by writer Rex Weiner in a series of stories that were published as weekly serials in 1979–80 by the New York Rocker and the LA Weekly. The stories were published as a book by Rare Bird Books in July 2018.^[6]

DC Comics produced a prequel miniseries of same name.^[7]

The film was both a commercial and critical failure, being awarded the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, tying with Bo Derek's Ghosts Can't Do It. Billy Idol's "Cradle of Love" from the soundtrack became one of his biggest hits on the Billboard Hot 100 (peaking at #2). The film has since developed a cult-following.