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Bad Lieutenant

Cast

Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Frankie Thorn, Robin Burrows View All


Crew

Abel Ferrara (Screenplay), Abel Ferrara (Director), Zoë Lund (Screenplay) View All

Release: Sep. 16th, 1992
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes
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 find forgiveness.
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the samoan lawyer
Bad Lieutenant almost becomes a character study of Keitel as we observe his erratic and out of control behaviour.
Iroquois
As the titular lieutenant (who is never named in-story), Keitel lives up to the "bad" part of the film's title as he spends much of the film engaging in substance abuse and the occasional act of sexual deviancy (the film's most notorious scene is probably the one where Keitel sexually hara....
Gideon58
A frighteningly unhinged performance by Harvey Keitel in the title role is the best thing about a 1992 film called Bad Lieutenant a repellent, disturbing, and downright ugly character study wrapped around a gritty police drama that provides nothing in the way of positive characters or a story with ....
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