Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.
Acting
Gere's career-best villain — charming, repulsive, magnetic
Direction
Figgis turns LA into a humid fever dream of moral decay
Writing
Peck's monologues are masterclasses in psychological warfare
Director
Mike Figgis
Richard Gere
Dennis Peck
Andy Garcia
Raymond Avila
Laurie Metcalf
Amy Wallace
Nancy Travis
Kathleen Avila
Elijah Wood
Sean Stretch
Richard Bradford
Grieb
William Baldwin
Van Stretch
Michael Beach
Dorian Fletcher
Faye Grant
Penny Stretch
John Kapelos
Steven Arrocas
Katherine Borowitz
Tova Arrocas
Annabella Sciorra
Heather Peck
Susan Forristal
Lolly
Ron Vawter
Jaegar
Xander Berkeley
Rudy Mohr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gere and Garcia reportedly stayed in character off-set, with Gere refusing to acknowledge Garcia socially during filming.
Released months before the Rodney King beating, the film's LAPD cynicism now reads as eerily prescient of the 1992 riots.
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