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Bad Lieutenant

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Bad Lieutenant

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Summary

Crime drama starring Harvey Keitel. Drugs, alcohol, spiralling debt and religious visitations are sending an NYPD cop off the rails. Placing a huge bet on a baseball game, and hunting the thugs who have raped a nun, the cop hopes for a final chance of redemption.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Alan Jones

When director Abel Ferrara's films are good, they are exceptionally good, as proved by King of New York, Ms 45 and this highly controversial tale of a corrupt cop (Harvey Keitel) getting one last chance at redemption when he investigates the rape of a nun. The problem is that she has forgiven her attackers and therefore refuses to name them. This depiction of one man's vice-ridden hell is sexually explicit and brutally violent to an extreme degree, but the intention of Ferrara's furious walk on the wild side is to shock audiences out of their complacency. Keitel gives the bravest performance of his career so far as the lapsed Catholic in serious debt and even worse moral and ethical chaos.

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7.0/10

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Cast

rolenameLieutenantHarvey KeitelBeat copVictor ArgoCopPaul CalderonCopLeonard ThomasArianeRobin BurrowsNunFrankie ThornBowtayVictoria BastelJesusPaul HippLieutenant's sonBrian McElroyLieutenant's sonFrankie AcciarioLieutenant's wifePeggy GormleyLieutenant's daughterStella KeitelBlack kidShawn McLeanBlack kidJohn Steven JonesLiteAnthony RuggieroJCVincent Laresca

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rolenameDirectorAbel Ferrara

Details

Theatrical distributor

Guild Film Distribution Ltd

Released on

1993-02-19

Languages

English | Spanish

Guidance

Violence, swearing, drug abuse and nudity.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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