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R,2hrs 12min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1990
Director:
Sidney Lumet
Distributor:
TriStar Pictures
Starring:
Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante  ...more
Synopsis: Following Serpico (1973) and Prince of the City (1981), veteran urban crime film director Sidney Lumet completed a thematic trilogy about New York City police corruption with this noir drama. When New York City cop Mike Brennan (Nick Nolte) shoots an unarmed Hispanic drug dealer in cold blood, he quickly plants a gun on his victim and manufactures some eyewitness testimony. D.A. Kevin Quinn (Patrick O'Neal) calls in his assistant district attorney, Al Reilly (Timothy Hutton), to conduct a perfunctory ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Sidney Lumet's occasionally powerful film on the ubiquity of racial strife and corruption in the N.Y.P.D. and the New York legal system features a tremendous performance by Nick Nolte, but is ultimately too sprawling and shapeless to have the impact he intended. Adapted from a novel by a New York assistant DA who went on to become a New York State Supreme Court Justice by a director who has made classic ... Full Review
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Nick Nolte
Lieutenant Mike Brennan
Timothy Hutton
Al Reilly
Armand Assante
Bobby Texador
Patrick O'Neal
Kevin Quinn
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