The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power --
passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy.
LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence,
but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He may get his shot when he
catches the appreciative eye of B-list director Rudy Ressler, and his
troublemaking fiancée, Leona Brueger, the older-but-still-foxy widow of
a processed-meat tycoon. Nate tries to elude her crafty seductions, but
consents to keep an eye on their estate in the Hollywood Hills while
they're away.
Also minding the mansion is Raleigh Dibble, a hapless ex-con trying to
put the past behind him. Raleigh is all too happy to be set up for the
job -- as butler-cum-watchdog -- by Nigel Wickland, Leona's impeccably
dressed art dealer. What Raleigh doesn't realize is that under the natty
clothes and posh accent, Nigel has a nefarious plan: two paintings
hanging on the mansion's walls will guarantee them more money than
they've ever seen.
Everyone's dreams are just within reach -- the only problem is, this is
Hollywood. A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The
Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants
like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, and when a pair of drug-addled
young copycats stumbles upon Nigel's heist, that's just the beginning of
the disaster to come. Soon Hollywood Nate, surfer cops Flotsam and
Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly
situation on their hands.
Hollywood Hills is a raucous and dangerous roller coaster ride that
showcases Joseph Wambaugh in vintage form.
