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Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 American crime film directed by Abel Ferrara. The film stars Harvey Keitel as the title character "bad lieutenant" as well as Victor Argo and Paul Calderón. The screenplay was co-written by Ferrara with actress-model Zoë Lund, both of whom appear in the film in minor roles.
Bad Lieutenant: Directed by Abel Ferrara. With Harvey Keitel, Brian McElroy, Frank Acciarito, Peggy Gormley. 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 and redemption.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Abel Ferrara
- 1992-12-17
The Lieutenant (Harvey Keitel) is a corrupt cop steeped in gambling debt who exploits his authority to sexually harass teenage girls, embezzle money and abuse drugs.
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- Abel Ferrara
- NC-17
- Harvey Keitel
- THE PLACID WOMAN WHO HELPS THE LIEUTENANT FREEBASE HEROIN WROTE THE MOVIE. That's Zoë Tamerlis Lund, who starred in Abel Ferrara's revenge-exploitation thriller Ms. 45 (1981) more than a decade earlier, when she was 17 years old.
- CHRISTOPHER WALKEN WAS SUPPOSED TO STAR IN IT. Christopher Walken had starred in Ferrara's previous film, King of New York (1990), and was set to play the lead in Bad Lieutenant before pulling out at almost the last minute.
- HARVEY KEITEL'S INITIAL REACTION TO THE SCRIPT WAS NOT PROMISING. "When we gave [Keitel] the script the first time, he read about five pages and threw it in the garbage," Ferrara said.
- IT WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY. "It was always, in my mind, a comedy," Ferrara said. He cited the scene where the Lieutenant pulls the teenage girls over as a specific example of how Christopher Walken would have played it, and how Harvey Keitel changed it.
Bad Lieutenant. 1992 · 1 hr 32 min. R. Crime · Drama · Thriller. A corrupt New York City cop seeks redemption while investigating the rape of a young nun and battling the addictions that drive him toward insanity. Subtitles: English. Starring: Harvey Keitel Brian McElroy. Directed by: Abel Ferrara.
- Abel Ferrara
- January 1, 1992
- 91 min
Jan 22, 1993 · Harvey Keitel plays this man with such uncompromised honesty that the performance can only be called courageous; not many actors would want to be seen in this light. The lieutenant has no illusions about himself.
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Harvey Keitel gives a searing performance as an out-of-control NYPD police detective on a collision course with disaster in director Abel Ferrara’s brilliant and deeply disturbing crime drama. Keitel’s Lieutenant has survived on the New York streets for twenty years.
