Tough Guys

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Tough Guys
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jeff Kanew
Written by	James Cruikshank James Orr
Produced by	Joe Wizan
Starring	Burt Lancaster Kirk Douglas
Cinematography	King Baggot
Edited by	Kaja Fehr
Music by	James Newton Howard
Production companies	Touchstone Pictures Silver Screen Partners II The Bryna Company
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release date	October 3, 1986 (1986-10-03)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$10 million[1]
Box office	$21.5 million (US/Canada)[2]

Tough Guys is a 1986 American action comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach, Charles Durning, Dana Carvey, and Darlanne Fluegel. It is the eighth film of Touchstone Pictures, and the final film to be released from Douglas's Bryna Productions.

Lancaster and Douglas had already made several films together, including I Walk Alone (1948), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Devil's Disciple (1959), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), and Seven Days in May (1964), becoming something of a team in the public's eye. Douglas was always second-billed under Lancaster but, with the exception of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and The List of Adrian Messenger, in which Lancaster cameoed, their roles were more or less of equal importance. Tough Guys was their final collaboration.

Adolph Caesar, who was originally going to star as Leon B. Little, died of complications from a heart attack on the set of the film^[3] and was replaced by Eli Wallach.

This was the first film released under the Touchstone Pictures label after Walt Disney Studios changed the name of the label from Touchstone Films, following the release of Ruthless People (1986).