Hot Pursuit is a 2015 American action comedy film produced by New Line Cinema, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, and Pacific Standard and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was directed by Anne Fletcher, from a screenplay written by David Feeney and John Quaintance, and stars Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara. The story follows a straight-laced police officer assigned to protect the capricious widow of a drug boss's lieutenant from corrupt cops and criminals who want her dead as they race through Texas to avoid detection.