Cop Land
| Cop Land | |
|---|---|
Cop Land promotional poster
|
|
| Directed by | James Mangold |
| Produced by |
Cathy Konrad Ezra Swerdlow Cary Woods |
| Written by | James Mangold |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Howard Shore |
| Cinematography | Eric Alan Edwards |
| Edited by | Craig McKay |
|
Production
company |
|
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
|
Release date
|
|
|
Running time
|
104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $44,862,187 |
| Cop Land: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Soundtrack album by Howard Shore | |
| Released | 1997 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 40:11 |
| Label | Milian |
Cop Land is a 1997 American crime drama film written and directed by James Mangold, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, and Robert De Niro. The supporting cast features Peter Berg, Janeane Garofalo, Robert Patrick, Michael Rapaport, Annabella Sciorra, Cathy Moriarty, Arthur Nascarella, and John Spencer. The story follows a sheriff (Stallone) in a small New Jersey town inhabited and dominated by corrupt New York City cops. Their corruption grows until he can no longer allow himself to stand by and do nothing.
In the fictional town of Garrison, New Jersey, located across the Hudson River from New York City, a number of residents are NYPD officers. Local Sheriff Freddy Heflin (Sylvester Stallone) is secretly in love with Liz Randone (Annabella Sciorra), whose life he once saved after a car accident. Her rescue cost him the hearing in one ear which made him ineligible to become a New York City cop, as so many of his peers did, including Liz's abusive and unfaithful husband Joey Randone (Peter Berg).
One night, Murray "Superboy" Babitch (Michael Rapaport), nephew of Lt. Ray Donlan (Harvey Keitel), is driving across the George Washington Bridge when his car is side-swiped by a couple of African-American teens. Babitch attempts to force them to pull over. The passenger points what Babitch thinks is a weapon just before (Babitch's) front tire "blows out". Believing they have fired at him, Babitch shoots back. In an ensuing accident, the teens are killed. Jack Rucker (Robert Patrick) removes the steering-wheel lock that Babitch mistook for a weapon from the hands of one of the dead teens and is caught trying to plant a sub-machine-gun in their vehicle to justify the shooting. Worried about the repercussions to his career, Babitch is persuaded by Donlan to fake his own suicide; with help from several other cops, Donlan pretends that Babitch has jumped off the bridge.
...
Wikipedia