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.
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.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Lieutenant | Harvey Keitel |
| Beat cop | Victor Argo |
| Cop | Paul Calderon |
| Cop | Leonard Thomas |
| Ariane | Robin Burrows |
| Nun | Frankie Thorn |
| Bowtay | Victoria Bastel |
| Jesus | Paul Hipp |
| Lieutenant's son | Brian McElroy |
| Lieutenant's son | Frankie Acciario |
| Lieutenant's wife | Peggy Gormley |
| Lieutenant's daughter | Stella Keitel |
| Black kid | Shawn McLean |
| Black kid | John Steven Jones |
| Lite | Anthony Ruggiero |
| JC | Vincent Laresca |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Abel Ferrara |
