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Writer (WGA):
Henry Bean (written by)
Release Date:
12 January 1990 (USA)
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Tagline:
Trust him... he's a cop.
Plot:
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner...
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Figgis blurs the lines between good and bad in this dark thriller
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Richard Gere | ... | Dennis Peck |
 | Andy Garcia | ... | Raymond Avilla |
 | Laurie Metcalf | ... | Amy Wallace |
 | Nancy Travis | ... | Kathleen Avilla |
 | Richard Bradford | ... | Grieb |
 | William Baldwin | ... | Van Stretch |
 | Michael Beach | ... | Dorian Fletcher |
| Katherine Borowitz | ... | Tova Arrocas |
| Faye Grant | ... | Penny Stretch |
 | John Kapelos | ... | Steven Arrocas |
 | Xander Berkeley | ... | Rudy Mohr |
| John Capodice | ... | Chief Healy |
| Victoria Dillard | ... | Kee |
 | Pamella D'Pella | ... | Cheryl |
| Susan Forristal | ... | Lolly |
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115 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Singapore:M18 |
Iceland:16 |
Canada:A (Ontario) |
USA:R (Certificate #29892) |
Italy:VM14 |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Norway:15 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
West Germany:18
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Continuity: About halfway through the movie, Dennis is waiting for Raymond outside his office. They have a conversation. Dennis crosses his arms, and keeps them crossed for the wide shot. When the camera cuts back to the two-shot, Dennis is now just holding his hands together.
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Amy Wallace:
What Oat's said about your fellow officers honouring and respecting you is, as you probably know, complete crap. Most of the cops hate our guts. To the extent that they credit us with having any. They think we're climbers who went into I.A.D. for the promotions, which is true, not that we necessarily get them. So, they're polite because they're afraid of us. That's all.
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Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Jeff Goldblum/Aerosmith (#19.3)" (1993)
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CARTOON ROCK
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Dennis Peck is a street cop who seems happy to stay at that level, and yet he spends significantly more money than he makes on his cops' pay. When IA officers investigate Peck's partner Van Stretch for planting drugs on a suspect and using unnecessary force, they decide to look into Peck more. However Peck knows how to exploit weakness in those around him and begins to clear up the loose links around him while pushing all Raymond Avila's buttons.
This was Figgis' first American film and he made an excellent start. The dark plot is pretty simple in terms of beginning, middle, start. What makes it so much more than that is the characters are so well drawn. Peck and Avila both become like each other the more we know about them, their methods, their thoughts and their weaknesses are all similar. It makes it harder to fit everyone into the mould of good guys and bad guys and keeps everything more interesting. The various twists don't always make sense but the film is forceful enough to keep everything moving.
Gere is on best form here, playing a character against type he is the embodiment of corruption, deceit and murder. Garcia is also excellent as Raymond, who blends his actions well from good into bad. Metcalfe is excellent as Garcia's partner who may or may not be motivated by the hatred of Gere's macho personae. It's also good to see Baldwin, Travis and Xander Berkley have good roles.
Overall this is a dark thriller that blends characters into one mess of corruption in the police. It is an excellent film with great characters.