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 Todd Phillips Todd Phillips (born Todd Bunzl; December 20, 1970) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for writing and directing films, including "Road Trip" (2000), "Old School" (2003), "Starsky & Hutch" (2004), "The Hangover Trilogy" (2009, 2011, and 2013), "Due Date" (2010) and "War Dogs" (2016). For his work on the film "Borat", he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Huntington, New York, Phillips attended New York University Film School, but dropped out in order to focus on completing his first film, the feature-length