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Night Falls on Manhattan
In a city of nine million people is there room for one honest man?
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
- Original title
- Night Falls on Manhattan
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Revenue
- $9,889,670
CinemaSerf
Feb 26, 2023 · via TMDB
This film starts and ends with some lovely jazz, thereafter it is all rather an unremarkable crime thriller. When a drug dealer kills three cops and then escapes in a patrol car, the District Attorney "Morgie" (Ron Liebman) announces that when the perpetrator is apprehended, he is going to be prosecuted by the newly qualified lawyer (and ex-cop) son of one of those officers seriously injured by the attacker. "Casey" (Andy Garcia) is that man, and after a curiously far-fetched turn of events finds himself facing the killer in court and next thing, he is DA himself and party to an investigation into police corruption that might well lead to his own nearest and dearest. To be honest, I found this whole thing all just too convenient. It's all just a bit too "nice" and the courtroom scenes at the start which also feature Richard Dreyfuss are really underwhelming. The plot is messy and the conclusion really lacks, well, substance. It looks good and combined with the score is effective at creating a New York that is seedy and immoral - but Garcia just hasn't the gravitas to pull this off and Ian Holm (his father "Liam") is no great shakes either. It's watchable on the telly on a wet winter's evening, but that's about the height of it, sorry.
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Andy Garcia
Sean Casey
Ian Holm
Liam Casey
James Gandolfini
Joey Allegretto
Lena Olin
Peggy Lindstrom
Shiek Mahmud-Bey
Jordan Washington
Colm Feore
Elihu Harrison
Ron Leibman
Morgenstern
Richard Dreyfuss
Sam Vigoda
Dominic Chianese
Judge Impelliteri
Paul Guilfoyle
McGovern
Bonnie Rose
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Norman Matlock
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Bobby Cannavale
Vigoda Assistant #1
Marcia Jean Kurtz
Eileen
Jude Ciccolella
Lieutenant Wilson
John Randolph Jones
Captain Lawrence
Jim Moody
Mayor Williams
Frank Vincent
Captain
James Murtaugh
Man in Asylum
Santo Fazio
Eduardo
Anthony Alessandro
Shmuel
David Fonteno
Captain #1
John Seitz
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Stephen Beach
Cop #2
Vincent Pastore
Cop #3
Chuck Pfeiffer
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Tamara Phillips
News #3
Louis Guss
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Richard Bright
64 Precinct Lieutenant
John Di Benedetto
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Vic Noto
Police Diver Cochran
Socorro Santiago
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Donna Hanover
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Kaity Tong
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Elliot Cuker
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Yvette Mercedes
Meter Maid
Kristina Lear
Girl in Restaurant
Joe Drago
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Nathan George
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David Watkin
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Robert Easton
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Peter Bucossi
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Sidney Lumet
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Suzanne Smith Crowley
Casting
Thom Mount
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Celia D. Costas
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Mark Isham
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Sidney Lumet
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