The bad lieutenant (DVD) [videorecording] : port of call New Orleans / First Look Studios ; Saturn Films ; Millennium Films and Polsky Films present ; directed by Werner Herzog ; screenplay by William Finkelstein ; an Edward R. Pressman production, a Saturn Films production in association with Osiris Productions ; a film by Werner Herzog ; produced by Stephen Belafonte, Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky ; produced by John Thompson, Randall Emmett ; produced by Edward R. Pressman.
Nicolas Cage (Terence McDonagh), Eva Mendes (Frankie Donnenfield), Val Kilmer (Stevie Pruit), Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner (Big Fate), Fairuza Balk (Heidi), Shawn Hatosy (Armand Benoit), Jennifer Coolidge (Genevieve), Tom Bower (Pat McDonagh), Vondie Curtis Hall (Captain James Brasser), Brad Dourif (Ned Schoenholtz), Irma P. Hall (Binnie Rogers), Denzel Whitaker (Daryl), Michael Shannon (Mundt), Shea Whigham (Justin), Lucius Baston (Midget). Special features: Photography book: photos by Lena Herzog [slide show]; Making of "Bad lieutenant: Port of call New Orleans" [featurette] (31 min.); Alternate trailer (2 min.); Previews (6 min.).
Contents:
Main titles -- My friend -- Missing -- Delivery boy -- Wake up -- Attorney -- Where is he? -- Cut a deal -- Power behind the throne -- Crack talkin' -- War out of hand -- End credits.
Summary:
Sgt. Terence McDonagh of the New Orleans PD has been promoted to lieutenant, thanks to an act of bravery just after Hurricane Katrina. He jumped into the murky, rising waters of a flooded jail to save a prisoner, injured his back in the process, and now he's addicted to painkillers. That's OK, though, because McDonagh is also addicted to every drug on the planet, and helps himself by raiding the evidence room after drug busts. The slaughter of a Senegalese family--parents, grandmother, and two young children--lands in his lap. The prime suspect is drug dealer Big Fate, who causes Big Fear in the locals, so it's going to be almost impossible to find anyone to connect him to the crime. What with his constant search for drugs, his high-maintenance call girl girlfriend, and a father who's drinking himself to death, is it any wonder the Lieutenant's gone bad?
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