Bad Lieutenant
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| Directed by | Abel Ferrara |
| Produced by | Edward R. Pressman |
| Written by |
Zoë Lund Paul Calderon Abel Ferrara |
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| Music by | Joe Delia |
| Cinematography | Ken Kelsch |
| Edited by | Anthony Redman |
| Distributed by | Aries Films |
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96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Spanish |
| Budget | $1 million |
| Box office | $2 million |
Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Abel Ferrara. The film stars Harvey Keitel as the titular "bad lieutenant." The screenplay was co-written by Ferrara with actor-writer Paul Calderón and actress-model Zoë Lund, both of whom appear in the film.
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
After dropping off his two young sons at Catholic school, the police Lieutenant takes a few bumps of cocaine and drives to the scene of a double murder in The Bronx. Wandering away, the Lieutenant finds a drug dealer and gives him a bag of drugs from a crime scene, smoking crack during the exchange; the dealer promises to give him the money he makes from selling the drugs in a few days. At an apartment, the Lieutenant gets drunk and engages in a threesome with two women. Meanwhile, a nun is raped inside a church by two young .
The next morning, the Lieutenant learns that he has lost a bet on a National League Championship Series game between the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He tries to win back his money by doubling his wager on the Dodgers in the next game. At another crime scene, the Lieutenant rifles through the car and finds some drugs which he stashes in his suit jacket. However, he is too impaired to secure the drugs, and they fall out onto the street in front of his colleagues. The Lieutenant tries to play it off by instructing them to enter the drugs into evidence.
At the hospital, the Lieutenant spies on the nun's examination, and learns that she was penetrated with a crucifix. Later that evening, he pulls over two teenage girls who are using their father's car without his knowledge to go to a club. As they have no driving license, the Lieutenant tells one of the girls to bend over and pull up her skirt, and the other to simulate fellatio while he masturbates. The following day, he listens in on the nun's deposition, where she refuses to identify her assailants.
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