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Bad Lieutenant
Directed by
Abel Ferrara
NC-17
1992
1h 36m
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7.0
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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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Cast of Bad Lieutenant
Harvey Keitel
LT
Peggy Gormley
LT's Wife
Stella Keitel
LT's Daughter
Victor Argo
Bet Cop
Paul Calderon
Cop #1
Leonard L. Thomas
Cop #2
Vincent Laresca
JC
Frankie Thorn
The Nun
Brian McElroy
LT's Son #1
Frankie Acciarito
LT's Son #2
Dana Dee
LT's Baby Girl
Anthony Ruggiero
Lite
Robin Burrows
Ariane
Victoria Bastel
Bowtay
G. Elvis Phillips
Young Cop
Stephen Chen
Korean Store Owner
Shawn McClean
Korean Store Hood #1
John Steven Jones
Korean Store Hood #2
Fernando Vélez
Julio
Joseph Micheal Cruz
Paulo
Bad Lieutenant Ratings & Reviews
Slant Magazine
Jake Cole
Even by the scuzzy standards of Abel Ferrara's filmography, Bad Lieutenant is particularly filthy.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
Ferrara seeks to expose his subject. What this film is about is the performance, Keitel's absolute bearing of his character's soul.
A Good Movie To Watch
Farah Cheded
Always one for provocation, director Abel Ferrara pushes our empathy to - and maybe even beyond - its natural limits, only to break with the film's hitherto unrelenting grit and dangle the glinting possibility of transcendent redemption in front of us.
TheIndependentCritic.com
Richard Propes
Keitel's performance is courageous, almost psychotic, because it is deeply and profoundly authentic.
Los Angeles Times
Peter Rainer
[Keitel] keeps us watching his descent without wanting to look away. Only an actor with tremendous reserves of power could accomplish that.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
It's a powerhouse performance in a film of jabbing intensity and wit.
The Young Folks
Gary Shannon
The greatest New York City depiction of repentance in the deepest, darkest slums of the human soul since Scorsese's "Mean Streets."
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
Ferrara was in the right place at the right time to make Bad Lieutenant.
The Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge
Members of the gutter-al elite will be the sole survivors.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Bad Lieutenant is finally a pulp parable of sin, addiction, and redemption, a movie that, like its subversive hero, revels in the pleasure -- and danger -- of going too far.
Variety
Lawrence Cohn
Abel Ferrara's uncompromising Bad Lieutenant is a harrowing journey with a corrupt N.Y. cop sinking into the lower depths.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
There's an undeniable formal elegance in the way Ferrara, who coauthored the script with Zoe Lund, frames and holds certain shots, and Keitel certainly gives his all.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
[Ferrara's] crowning achievement.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
When Abel Ferrara calls something bad, better believe it: he means business.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
What it lacks in charm, it compensates for with audacity and single-mindedness of vision.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
This punishing film from director Abel Ferrara is something else altogether -- an illuminating, excoriating descent into the cesspool of sin, self-loathing and defilement. This is not an easy film to watch.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It doesn't take five minutes for us to understand the depth of his immorality. But the movie proceeds to outline his badness.
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