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Danny Madigan is a teenage boy who resides in NYC with his mother. Danny spends most of his time hanging out a rundown cinema watching the Jack Slater film franchise which Danny is obsessed. One night, Danny attends a private screening of the 4th Jack Slater movie 24 hours before the big premiere in New York. However, Danny magically finds himself in the movie which he is transported via a magic golden ticket given him to be the cinema's owner and projectionist Nick and Danny joins the film's fictional title protagonist Jack Slater as he sets out to take on mob boss Tony Vivaldi and his associate Mr. Benedict who tortured and killed his cousin Frank which Danny irritates Slater by telling him that it's a movie and it's not real.

Because Danny, being a child, doesn't understand the nuances of conversing with adults. Danny is overcome with the excitement of being pulled in to the world of a movie franchise he loves. Paired up with his action hero. To Danny, the fact that they're in a movie is obvious and so everyone should understand this. But to the people in that world, it is the real world. So Danny just seems insane.

Lt. Dekker frequently loses his temper and shouts at Slater because Slater is a loose cannon and constantly breaks the rules of police procedures. He also does so simply because he is scripted to behave like that. He is after all not a real person, but just a movie character (and purposefully a very 1-dimensional one at that, as a spoof of characters like that from generic action flicks).

Annoying and obnoxious teenage boy Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) attends a private screening of the action film "Jack Slater IV" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, at a rundown cinema managed by Danny's only friend Nick (Robert Prosky). But, Danny's ticket magically transports Danny into the movie and meets the film's fictional title character Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger) a larger than life Los Angeles police detective and Danny joins Jack, as Jack sets out to settle a score with Mr. Benedict (Charles Dance), the right hand man of mob boss Tony Vivaldi (Anthony Quinn), whom tortured and killed Jack's cousin Frank (Art Carney). But, Benedict takes possession of Danny's ticket and enters the real world and Danny and Jack leave the film to go after him and Danny and Jack set out to stop Benedict from assassinating Schwarzenegger at the film's premiere in New York City, which Benedict believes, if Schwarzenegger dies, there will be no more Jack Slater films.

The word was most likely "fuck".

In movies rated PG-13, films are only allowed to use that particular word or a variant of it once. Twice on rare occasions, depending on context; such as the movie Lakeview Terrace or The Martian. Interestingly enough, this film only says the word once at the very end of the movie when Slater's Captain is once again yelling at Slater. It also could have been "Mother-Fucker" as that variant hasn't been spoken in a PG-13 film.

The word may also have been "cunt" as it has never been used in a PG-13 film. When Danny starts writing on the note pad, the first letter he writes looks to be a C.