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Q & A (1990) 6.4
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him in this gritty ... See full summary » Director:Sidney Lumet |
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Cast
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| Nick Nolte | ... |
Captain Michael Brennan
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| Timothy Hutton | ... |
Asst. Dist. Atty. Aloysius 'Al' Francis Reilly
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| Armand Assante | ... |
Roberto 'Bobby Tex' Texador
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| Patrick O'Neal | ... |
Kevin Quinn (Chief of Homicide)
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Lee Richardson | ... |
Leo Bloomenfeld
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| Luis Guzmán | ... |
Det. Luis Valentin
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| Charles S. Dutton | ... |
Det. Sam 'Chappie' Chapman (Homicide)
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| Jenny Lumet | ... |
Nancy Bosch /
Mrs. Bobby Texador
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| Paul Calderon | ... |
Roger Montalvo
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International Chrysis | ... |
José Malpica
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| Dominic Chianese | ... |
Larry Pesch /
Vito /
Lorenzo Franconi
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| Leonardo Cimino | ... |
Nick Petrone (mob boss)
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| Fyvush Finkel | ... |
Preston Pearlstein
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Gustavo Brens | ... |
Alfonse Segal
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Martin E. Brens | ... |
Armand Segal
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A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him in this gritty crime film. Written by Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
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crime boss | district attorney | detective | police brutality | new york city |Taglines:
When the questions are dangerous, the answers can be deadly.Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
27 April 1990 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Tödliche Fragen See more »Box Office
Gross:
$11,207,891 (USA)Company Credits
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Sidney Lumet: the director was unhappy with the way this movie was edited for television so he had his name removed and replaced with the pseudonym "Alan Smithee" for the television broadcast version. See more »Goofs
Chief Quinn asks ADA Reilly why he did not attend St. John's Law School. Hutton says his father didn't like the Jesuits. St. John's University is not a Jesuit institution. It is conducted by the Vincentians. See more »Quotes
Captain Lt. Michael 'Mike' Brennan, NYPD: [Brennan is telling other Cops about an arrest] l don't know what this guy's on, but he just sits there with a shit-eating grin on his face! So, fuck it. l figure l've got to straighten him out a little bit. So l say, ''You've got a right to remain silent as long as you can stand the pain.'' There's nothing. Not a fucking dent. Not a fucking dent! l decide to fingerprint him in the back room, He pulls away from me, He's a big motherfucker, He's 6'-3" or 6'-4", He starts yelling, ''You fucking ...[...]
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"Yeah, what?" - "Who are we getting to chew up the scenery as Mike Brennan?"
- "You kiddin' me? You specialising in bustin' my b**ls? Send for Nick
Nolte!" - "Nick (choke) Nolte? Are you talking to me? I've just been on the phone to the mayor and the D.A. is crawlin' up my ass. You're a dinosaur, Lumet. Your ideas don't fit today. I want your director's guild ID on this desk now. People have a nasty habit of gettin' DEAD around you!"This is one of Lumet's three hour and always worthy examinations of police corruption and compromised idealism. This is similiar to his 'Prince of the city' although it's not let down by an actor like Treat Williams who was not up to the job. Q&A suffers from some over-ripe, stagey and over played performances that are allowed to run on longer than the scene's necessity. It also has such ugliness and perversion that you wonder whether the film really needed to be made as we have been down this road before. Hutton has the best scene whereby his heart is broken by a loyal old mentor who always warned him that it was inevitable.
The main problem I have with this film is the susposed racism of the Reilly character. I'm not sure about the point of the subplot and why would a man who has a coloured girlfriend be shocked that her father is black? Surely it was on the cards.