Night Falls on Manhattan

5/16/19971h 53m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ In a city of nine million people is there room for one honest man? ~

Overview:

A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$10,000,000.00

Revenue:

$9,889,670.00

Key words:

drug dealer
corruption
police
police corruption
district attorney
nypd
the lost evidence

Cast

Andy Garcia

~ as ~

Sean Casey

Ian Holm

~ as ~

Liam Casey

James Gandolfini

~ as ~

Joey Allegretto

Lena Olin

~ as ~

Peggy Lindstrom

Shiek Mahmud-Bey

~ as ~

Jordan Washington

Colm Feore

~ as ~

Elihu Harrison

Ron Leibman

~ as ~

Morgenstern

Richard Dreyfuss

~ as ~

Sam Vigoda

Dominic Chianese

~ as ~

Judge Impelliteri

Paul Guilfoyle

~ as ~

McGovern

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
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.