Cast: Andy Garcia, Richard
Dreyfuss, Lena Olin, Ian Holm, Ron Leibman
Directed by Sidney
Lumet
A powerful drug dealer takes down several
cops and makes his escape, only to turn himself in later to the cops
claiming self-defense from corrupt police wanting kickbacks. A
cop-turned-assistant DA gets the nod for this high profile case due
to the fact that one of the cops shot was his father. After a
successful case, he becomes DA and discovers that the corruption he
spoke about exists, and the consequences hit a little close to
home.
It takes a while to get going, but this
film eventually becomes agripping and knowing look into how
curruption can spread, and it's influence pervading into all facets
of the law. Garcia is good, Dreyfuss is great, and Lumet turns in
another classy crime drama .
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