Night Falls on Manhattan
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Director/Writer: | Sidney Lumet |
| Director of Photography: | David Watkin |
| Editor: | Sam O'Steen |
| Music: | Mark Isham |
| Production Designer: | Philip Rosenberg |
| Producers: | Thom Mount and Josh Kramer |
| Paramount; R; 115 minutes | |
| Release: | 5/97 |
| Cast: | Andy Garcia, Ian Holm, Ron Leibman, Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin, James Gandolfini, Colm Feore and Shiek Mahmud-Bey |
Night Falls on Manhattan is one of those rare films that actually does justice to our legal system. It tackles police corruption and its corresponding moral quandary in a thoughtful, intelligent manner. After assistant district attorney Sean Casey (Garcia) wins a high-profile case against a cop-killing drug dealer (Mahmud-Bey), he is elected district attorney and finds himself entangled in a corruption scandal. Several New York cops, including his father's partner, are suspected of accepting bribes from the drug dealer Casey just put away. As the son of a cop, Casey believes there's plenty of gray when justice meets the street. A gritty drama with sharply drawn characters.
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