Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Police, Drugs, Murder, Detectives, Revenge, Urban, Suspense, Cult Classic
Plot: When a drug bust goes awry and a pregnant woman is shot, undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) is suspended from the Detroit Police Force. With a baby of his own and a wife who has seen him tortured by the horrific incident, Tellis is not anxious to go back onto the force, but he doesn’t know any other kind of work that can fulfill him.Now it is eighteen months after his suspension, and Tellis is brought before a review board and told he is needed to help crack a homicide case. A rookie undercover officer has been killed, and if Tellis takes on the assignment and apprehends a suspect, he is told he can have the assignment of his choosing and all the charges against him will be dismissed. Homicide Detective Henry Oak (Ray Liotta), the slain officer’s partner and mentor, is a bare bones, brass knuckles cop who has been leading the murder investigation. A respected officer, who brings in solid collars with a 93% conviction rate, Oak has become increasingly volatile and aggressive since the trail of clues in the case has gone cold. In fact, for over sixty days, there has been no tangible evidence or a single suspect uncovered. Despite his wife’s concerns about his mental stability if he goes back undercover, Tellis teams up with Oak, whose heavy-handed, and
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| Directed by |
Joe Carnahan
The Hire: Ticker, Smokin' Aces, Untitled Joe Carnahan Project |
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| Written by |
Joe Carnahan
Pride and Glory, The Hire: Ticker, Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane |
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Jason Patric
Sleepers, Speed 2: Cruise Control, The Lost Boys |
 | Chi McBride
I, Robot, Gone in Sixty Seconds, The Terminal |
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 | Dan Leis
Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, Bloodthirst: Legend of the Chupacabras | | | | |
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