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Bad Lieutenant starring: Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon, Leonard L. Thomas, Robin Burrows
directed by: Abel Ferrara


 : Bad Lieutenant

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236114307
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 14, 2001
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: November 20, 1992
Sales Rank: 11231
MPN: IVEDA011430D




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Product Description:
While investigating a young nuns rape a corrupt new york city police detective with a serious drug and gambling addiction tries to change his ways and find forgiveness. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: Harvey Keitel Paul Calderone Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R Director: Abel Ferrera

Amazon.com:
Proving that he may be the most fearless actor of his or any other generation, Harvey Keitel gives an amazing, no-holds-barred performance in director Abel Ferrara's uncompromising 1992 film about a New York cop on the edge of self-annihilation. The film's title is meant to be taken literally: Keitel's character has no redeeming values whatsoever, save for his desperate need for redemption. Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide is correct in calling this an "over-the-top Catholic guilt movie," but it's been made with such conviction that Ferrara and Keitel transcend the sheer unpleasantness of the material to give it a kind of tragic divinity. Here's a character so vile and corrupted that he consumes or re-sells the drugs he confiscates, but when he's assigned to investigate the brutal rape of a nun who refuses to press charges, he feels that this is his opportunity to redeem his rotten soul. Deservedly rated NC-17 due to its rough content and a frontal nude scene that even Keitel's most loyal fans could do without, this film tends to divide viewers into love-it-or-hate-it categories, but few could deny its raw power and the deeply anguished humanity that Keitel brings to his role. Whatever your reaction may be, few would deny this is an unforgettable film. --Jeff Shannon



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Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Brilliant, transcendental film, easily Ferrara's best work...
This is one of the most notorious films of the 1990's, a really stunning piece of filmmaking. It's Abel Ferrara's best film, one of Keitel's most powerful, shocking performances, and a film that despite the intensely visceral, borderline sleazy material, manages somehow to be spiritual and transcendent by the end.

Keitel is a cop with no name (he's never referred by anything other than Lieutenant) who is corrupt to the bone. He's a junkie, a gambler, an alcoholic, and hangs out with ... Read More



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Bad Lieutenant
In this movie Harvey Kietel does more drugs, drinks more alcohol, and shoots his gun while driving his police car than most criminals do in the course of their day. Harvey drops his kids off at school then does coke. He goes home and drinks. He goes and shoots heroin. Then a nun is raped and he tracks down the assailants.

This isn't a bad movie, I just wonder how he can do so much drugs and alcohol and keep his car on the road. He shoots his radio because the LA Dodgers lose baseball ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - You do something for me, and I'll do something for you!
'Dazzlingly raw, gritty, dirty, blatantly real' are the best ways to describe this spectacular flick about a bad cop whose life is spinning out of control. Harvey Keitel gives an incredible, mind-blistering performance in the title role. This cop is losing himself in a gambling problem and a drug problem. These 2 problems are brutally and graphically shown on film as they drag this officer into the depths of depravity and degradation. He steals and abuses his power as a policeman to support his self ... Read More



Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Good performance, bad movie
Harvey Keitel gives a terrific performance as a cop who's also a drug user and gambling addict. However, everything else in the movie is terrible. The movie is about a police lieutenant who is investigating the rape of a nun and goes through some kind of spiritual awakening at the end. However instead of showing him doing any actual police work, the movie focuses on scenes where the lead uses drugs and gets deeper in debt to a bookie. These scenes seem to be just thrown into the movie and Keitel is the ... Read More



Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Theme could have been powerful
Indeed, the plot had potential for a theme of redemption, and one moving in this direction because of an example of forgiveness. One who looks for this will be greatly disappointed. The dialogue and acting are dreadful, the plot filled with such extreme and unreal stereotypes that those who watch films on religious themes, and who think that Richard Burton in Exorcist II was the worst of the lot, may wish to consider turning over that trophy to this cast.

Keitel certainly captures the image of ... Read More

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