Starsky & Hutch (film) Starsky & Hutch (film) Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 American crime-action buddy cop comedy film directed by Todd Phillips. The film stars Ben Stiller as David Starsky and Owen Wilson as Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and is a film adaptation of the original television series of the same name from the 1970s. Two streetwise undercover cops in the fictional city of Bay City, California in the 1970s, bust drug criminals with the help of underworld boss, Huggy Bear. The film functions as a sort of prequel to the TV series, as it portrays when Starsky was first partnered with Hutchinson.
Todd Phillips they were paid to re-enact their activities. It was never proven either way. His third documentary film "Bittersweet Motel" centered on the jam band Phish, covering its summer and fall 1997 tours, plus footage from their 1998 spring tour of Europe. It ends at The Great Went, a two-day festival held in upstate Maine which attracted 70,000 people. While at Sundance with "Frat House", Phillips met director-producer Ivan Reitman who led Phillips into writing and directing his comedy films, "Road Trip" and "Old School", for Reitman's Montecito Picture Company. Phillips also wrote and directed the 2004 film "Starsky & Hutch"