Starting: 8 August 1999
Showing in: Circuit
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Growing in the mob in New York,
you have two choices:
kill or be killed. But Bo Dietl made the most dangerous choice
of all, he became a cop.
Young
cop BO DIELT faces a wall of grey-haired, ster-faced
senior officers as he begins to explain the bizarre chain of
events that has led him to this internal affairs
investigation.
"Suppose we begin with the facts, says one of them,
'starting with the events going back to June of this
year..." But
really, you have to go back earlier to understand the
situation. Here's a guy, Bo Dielt, whose best friend from
childhood, RICHIE D'AMICO, is a rising mob boss. His
Godfather, TOMMY FLORIO, rules the local underworld. He grew
up in a neighborhood where those nice old guys on the
corner--guys like BIG JELLY, FRANKIE HOT and PHILLY NOSE are
probably hit men. It's a world where the only cops you can
trust are the ones you're bribing. Though Bo shocked everyone
by becoming a cop, he's never strayed far from his lifelong
friends and family in the neighborhood. June.
Summer in New York--hot and tense.
The recent rape and murder of a nun has cranked things up to a
fever pitch as the entire world, it seems, descends upon this
small Italian neighborhood looking for a story. For Dielt and
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partner COWBOY, so-named because of his John Wayne-like drawl,
there's nothing more important than nailing the deviants who
came into their neighborhood and did this to a nun. A
nun for chrissakes. But
with Bo and Cowboy's reputations as loose cannons, they can't
even get near the case-- this one's being handled from
downtown. Angry at being shut out, Bo and Cowboy vow to break
the cases themselves and use their mob contacts to bring them,
clue by clue, closer to the killers.
Directed by Abel Ferrara, from a scipt
written by Jeremy Iacone, based on Bo Dielt's autobiography--the
gritty, true story of his life as a New York cop.
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