Bad Lieutenant

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 96 mins

Rated: NR

Release Date: 1992

Countries: USA

Languages: English, Spanish

DIRECTED BY:

Abel Ferrara

WRITTEN BY:

Zoë Lund, Abel Ferrara

CAST INCLUDES:

Harvey Keitel, Zoë Lund, Frankie Thorn

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

Harvey Keitel earned a Film Independent Spirit Award for this transformative performance in Abel Ferraras' visceral tale of police corruption. This Cannes Film Festival Official Selection follows a corrupt detective with a gambling and drug addition, who, while investigating a young nun's rape, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption. Los Angeles Times raves, "[Keitel] keeps us watching his descent without wanting to look away. Only an actor with tremendous reserves of power could accomplish that."

SYNOPSIS

While investigating a young nun’s rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and to find forgiveness and redemption.

Bad Lieutenant

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 96 mins

Rated: NR

Release Date: 1992

Countries: USA

Languages: English, Spanish

DIRECTED BY

Abel Ferrara

WRITTEN BY

Zoë Lund, Abel Ferrara

CAST INCLUDES

While investigating a young nun’s rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and to find forgiveness and redemption.

"It's a powerhouse performance in a film of jabbing intensity and wit."

Rolling Stone

"[Keitel] keeps us watching his descent without wanting to look away. Only an actor with tremendous reserves of power could accomplish that."

Los Angeles Times

"Bad Lieutenant is finally a pulp parable of sin, addiction, and redemption, a movie that, like its subversive hero, revels in the pleasure -- and danger -- of going too far."

Entertainment Weekly