Father's Day/Twin Town/The Fifth Element/Underworld/Children of the Revolution

Good movie that was based on The Larry Davis Story

Timothy Hutton, Nick Nolte, and Armand Assante in Q&A (1990)

Rebecca De Mornay and Don Johnson in Guilty as Sin (1993)

Anne Bancroft and Ron Silver in Garbo Talks (1984)

Annabella Sciorra, Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Aleksa Palladino, Frank Pietrangolare, Alex Rocco, Tony Ray Rossi, and Ron Silver in Find Me Guilty (2006)

River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, and Judd Hirsch in Running on Empty (1988)

Sean Connery and Ian Bannen in The Offence (1973)

Andy Garcia in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)

Andy Garcia in Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)

The two rat-fucks? Rat-fucks! You took money from Harlem's biggest dealer. You committed perjury at his trial. You engaged in a conspiracy to kill him when he wouldn't cough up more dough, and now you're offering to turn in seven other cops in order to save yourself, and you have the nerve to call them rat-fucks? You were a cop, Joe, and now you're garbage! You're nothing!

Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia, and Dominic Chianese in Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)

Andy Garcia, Colm Feore, and Ron Leibman in Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)

Andy Garcia and Ian Holm in Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)

Andy Garcia and Lena Olin in Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)

Andy Garcia and Sidney Lumet in Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)

Richard Dreyfuss and Andy Garcia in Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)

Andy Garcia

Richard Dreyfuss

Lena Olin

Robert Daley

Sidney Lumet

A newly elected District Attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Night Falls on Manhattan

Another Lumet must see

Here&apos;s yet another film with a too low IMDb average. Really 6.6. I&apos;m so glad I came to view this film, a few years back. I just came to view it again, where I enjoyed it as much as last time. I love Sidney Lumet films. He makes good ones, rarely a bad one. I mean, he gave us Network, Equus, Family Business, and the lesser known, Guilty As Sin. This is just another one that holds up to the others, and another one on Lumet&apos;s notch of good films. This one has been constructed gingerly, attentively, as far as plot and story goes. One would even say judiciously, with great performances to boot, Dreyfuss, and Ron Leibman, a scene stealer, and terribly underused actor, most of his stuff t.v. related. Corruption runs high in a few cop beats, where Garcia&apos;s cop father (Holm, really good) is shot badly by a burst of machine gun fire, when a drug bust goes bad. Three beats were called in, where there should of only been one, which leads us to consider a few bad apples were involved. Even Garcia&apos;s father could be bad too like his partner and childhood mate, Joey (the late great Gandofini) a modest performance. Garcia, an ex cop, now a promising lawyer, is assigned to this criminal case, by Leibman who runs a law firm, to the disgust and anger of a slick lawyer adversary, Colm Feore (just another top form performance here), where the big black drug dealer, a nasty piece of work in a quite threatening performance, by Shiek Mahmud- Bey is caught, so it&apos;s really gonna get heated in that courtroom, where you don&apos;t want this black dude mad. Garcia&apos;s amusing remark, a moment I loved, sealed that deal. The turning point or second story, let&apos;s call it, takes off when a black book is recovered from one of the dead cops in that failed bust, a number of cops names including Holm&apos;s, all supposedly on the take are in there, and things get really juicy, plot wise, which sees Garcia back in the court room. This film has really been constructed thriller wise, as many characters, mostly the ones in question, aren&apos;t telling us everything. Dreyfuss&apos;s admittance about his teenage daughter to Garcia in those spa room scenes was something unexpected too. The film is very well written, all of it, it&apos;s treatment, etc, all shaped to perfection, solely by Lumet, the first scene in the lecture room, with budding lawyers, grabbing us straight away, with in your face frankness. The film has a very well researched feel, Garcia&apos;s performance though, not as good as the others. The character&apos;s choices and their situations, make sense, and we very well understand. If you&apos;re a cop and you go crooked, well the ball&apos;s in your caught, baby. Highly underrated and very much recommended cop/courtroom drama, Dreyfuss&apos;s performance as the black guy&apos;s defendant, the one you&apos;ll remember. He&apos;s brilliant.

Official Trailer

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Here's yet another film with a too low IMDb average. Really 6.6. I'm so glad I came to view this film, a few years back. I just came to view it again, where I enjoyed it as much as last time. I love Sidney Lumet films. He makes good ones, rarely a bad one. I mean, he gave us Network, Equus, Family Business, and the lesser known, Guilty As Sin. This is just another one that holds up to the others, and another one on Lumet's notch of good films. This one has been constructed gingerly, attentively, as far as plot and story goes. One would even say judiciously, with great performances to boot, Dreyfuss, and Ron Leibman, a scene stealer, and terribly underused actor, most of his stuff t.v. related. Corruption runs high in a few cop beats, where Garcia's cop father (Holm, really good) is shot badly by a burst of machine gun fire, when a drug bust goes bad. Three beats were called in, where there should of only been one, which leads us to consider a few bad apples were involved. Even Garcia's father could be bad too like his partner and childhood mate, Joey (the late great Gandofini) a modest performance. Garcia, an ex cop, now a promising lawyer, is assigned to this criminal case, by Leibman who runs a law firm, to the disgust and anger of a slick lawyer adversary, Colm Feore (just another top form performance here), where the big black drug dealer, a nasty piece of work in a quite threatening performance, by Shiek Mahmud- Bey is caught, so it's really gonna get heated in that courtroom, where you don't want this black dude mad. Garcia's amusing remark, a moment I loved, sealed that deal. The turning point or second story, let's call it, takes off when a black book is recovered from one of the dead cops in that failed bust, a number of cops names including Holm's, all supposedly on the take are in there, and things get really juicy, plot wise, which sees Garcia back in the court room. This film has really been constructed thriller wise, as many characters, mostly the ones in question, aren't telling us everything. Dreyfuss's admittance about his teenage daughter to Garcia in those spa room scenes was something unexpected too. The film is very well written, all of it, it's treatment, etc, all shaped to perfection, solely by Lumet, the first scene in the lecture room, with budding lawyers, grabbing us straight away, with in your face frankness. The film has a very well researched feel, Garcia's performance though, not as good as the others. The character's choices and their situations, make sense, and we very well understand. If you're a cop and you go crooked, well the ball's in your caught, baby. Highly underrated and very much recommended cop/courtroom drama, Dreyfuss's performance as the black guy's defendant, the one you'll remember. He's brilliant.

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