Officer Down (2005) (TV)

Director:

Christopher Miller

Writer:

Stephen Johnston (written by)

Release Date:

1 August 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

The only thing deadlier than a serial killer... is a cop with a license to kill.

Plot:

A policewoman unwittingly puts her family in danger when she uncovers corruption in her department.

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Police | Fall | Father Son Relationship | Detective

Cast

Sherilyn Fenn	...	Detective Kathryn Shaunessy
Casper Van Dien	...	Officer Philip Hallows
Jerry Kroll	...	Detective Gary Hill
Larry Drake	...	Captain Raymond Taggart
Ted Shackelford	...	Commissioner Donald Hallows
Richard Gleason	...	Michael Shaunessy
Sam Scarber	...	Lieutenant Randy Williams
Greg McDonald	...	Officer McCammon (as Gregory McDonald)
Joe Ochman	...	Bates
Mario Soto	...	Officer Lou Sideman
Jordan Roberts	...	Christine Gorman
Tom Tarantini	...	David Meed
Makelaie	...	Johnny Wilson (as Fatal Instinct)
James Patric Moran	...	Matthew Childs
Jason Peirce	...	Officer Miller
Brooke Baumer	...	Assitant Coroner
Solomon Loop	...	Officer Morley
Nicole Kingston	...	Officer Baron
Bill Dearth	...	Chief of Police
Halle Lindstrom	...	Halle Shaunessy
Ignacio Alcala	...	Ivan Cavalera (as Ignacio Alcala Jr.)
Joshua Wolf Coleman	...	Bouncer
Christopher Miller	...	Officer #1
Suzan Brittan	...	Officer #2
Sarah Elizabeth	...	Prostitute
Cynthia Glausi	...	Prostitute
Zyanya Brandt	...	Girl with Bouncing Ball
Rebecca Davis	...	FBI Agent Dancer
Joalissa Dingman	...	Dancer
Jazmyne	...	Dancer
Stacy Leigh	...	Dancer
Rhonda Morman	...	Dancer
Kathy Nguyen	...	Dancer
Mersing Le Guen	...	Dancer (as Mersing Nguyen)
Michelle M. Olmeda	...	Dancer (as Michelle M. Olmedu)
Destiny Monique	...	Fatal's Gang (as Destiny Arrendondo)
Ruben Ferrer	...	Fatal's Gang
Erick Frederick	...	Fatal's Gang
Billy Garcia	...	Fatal's Gang
Mike Jackson	...	Fatal's Gang
Ramon Molina	...	Fatal's Gang
Christina Villaseñor	...	Fatal's Gang
Byron Lee Bertagnolli	...	Officer
Robert Funk	...	Officer
Steven Garcia	...	Officer
Del Guillen	...	Officer (as Del Guillen Jr.)
Daryl Anthony Harper	...	Officer (as Daryl Harper)
Chad Harrison	...	Officer
Don Jabuat	...	Officer
Ed Mecija	...	Officer
Tim Regan	...	Officer
Blair Sillers	...	Officer
Stephen Wade Wilson	...	Officer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Julia Faye West	...	Dancer
Eric Andersen	...	Police Officer (uncredited)
Eric Jimenez	...	Officer (uncredited)
Danielle Kasen	...	FBI Agent (uncredited)
J. Lauren Proctor	...	News Reporter (uncredited)

Directed by
Christopher Miller

Writing credits
Stephen Johnston		(written by)

Produced by
Mark Boot	....	producer
Jack Hunter	....	executive producer
Sarah E. Noonan	....	producer
Steve Taylor	....	line producer

Original Music by
Nathan Lanier

Cinematography by
Ryan Nguyen		(director of photography)
Byron Werner		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Karl T. Hirsch

Casting by
Dean E. Fronk
Donald Paul Pemrick		(as Donald Pemrick)

Production Design by
Shannon Kemp		(as Shannon T. Kemp)

Art Direction by
Dominic Ceci
Jeff Williams

Costume Design by
Carla Biggert

Makeup Department
Jennifer Albrecht	....	special makeup effects artist
Michele Leon	....	first makeup assistant
Valecia Sarmento	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Jason Fazio	....	assistant production manager
Karl T. Hirsch	....	post-production supervisor
Tim Wasmundt	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Cynthia Glausi	....	second assistant director
Crystal Hopkins	....	second second assistant director
Justin Jones	....	first assistant director
Sheila Louie	....	first assistant director
Tony Margulies	....	first assistant director
Tony Margulies	....	second unit director
Melanie Wagor	....	second assistant director
Ben Waller	....	second unit director

Art Department
Chris Brandt	....	storyboard artist
Stephen Mykel	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Zach Bangma	....	boom operator
Bryan Colvin	....	boom operator
Andy Hay	....	sound re-recording mixer
Markus Innocenti	....	sound editor
Jackie Johnson	....	sound editor
Dana Kopetzky	....	sound mixer
Rod O'Brien	....	sound effects editor
Jesse Pomeroy	....	supervising sound editor
Geordy Sincavage	....	foley mixer
Paul Stanley	....	supervising sound editor

Special Effects by
Shannon Kemp	....	special effects supervisor

Stunts
Christine Anne Baur	....	stunt driver
Jill Cordova	....	stunts
Craig Jensen	....	stunt driver
Kim Robert Koscki	....	stunt coordinator
Joanna Shelmidine	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Jesse Arnold	....	gaffer: re-shoots
Greg Brezovec	....	electrician
Alexander Brown	....	best boy electric
Thomas Burns	....	first assistant camera
Sharla Cipicchio	....	second assistant camera
Guido Egger	....	key grip
Josh Ellis	....	assistant camera
Shane English	....	additional first assistant camera
Angelo Figlio	....	electrician
Joe Hendrick	....	assistant camera
Kyle Jewell	....	second assistant camera
Gretchen Kyle	....	first assistant camera: second unit
Lee McLaughlin	....	lead camera
Lee McLaughlin	....	still photographer (as Lee Hinton)
Ben Pluenneke	....	camera production assistant
Scott Probe	....	grip
Zack Richard	....	director of photography: second unit
Jim West	....	electrician
Teruhisa Yoshida	....	gaffer

Casting Department
Mike G.	....	casting associate
Chad Harrison	....	casting: Colorado/Washington D.C.

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Anne Metcalfe	....	wardrobe assistant

Editorial Department
Peter Swartz	....	colorist (as Pete Swartz)

Music Department
Nathan Lanier	....	conductor
Damon Tedesco	....	scoring mixer
David Wolin	....	music supervisor

Transportation Department
Matthew Ballard	....	transportation coordinator

Other crew
Jay Chais	....	set medic
Dana Charles	....	production assistant
Jason Fazio	....	assistant location manager
Kelly J. Halley	....	production assistant
Renay Nailon	....	production assistant
Charles Shin	....	key set production assistant
Rony Shino	....	location manager
Matthew Glenn Siegler	....	production assistant
Naomi Trejo	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Bookmark Pictures
• New Centurian Productions
• NovelFilms

Distributors

• Lifetime Television (2005) (USA) (TV)
• Universal Pictures (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• American Cinema International (2005) (non-USA) (all media)
• Eagle Video (2005) (Egypt) (all media)
• Filmes Lusomundo (2005) (Portugal) (all media)
• Freestyle Home Entertainment
• Indies Home Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Reivaj (2006) (Spain) (DVD)
• TF1 (2005) (France) (all media)
• Télévision Française 1 (TF1) (2006) (France) (all media)

Other Companies

• Aglet Post  post-production facilities
• Central Casting  extras casting
• Mission Post  sound post-production
• Reder & Feig  production legal services
• Spank Machine  sound re-recording

Also Known As:

"Assassin in Blue" - USA (video title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, language, some drug use and sexuality/nudity

Runtime:

USA:88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Netherlands:16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Bookmark Pictures

Soundtrack:

Gang Warz

If you can't trust the police who can you trust?

**SPOILERS** Much like the Clint Eastwood 1973 movie "Magnum Force" the film "Officer Down" is about a group of corrupt policemen who take the law into their own hands and go on a killing spree offing all the major drug dealers in the city of L.A.

The killer cops are lead a a religious psycho officer Philip Gammon, Casper Van Dien,who we learn later in the movie is the son of a top L.A police commander Donald Hallows, Ted Shackelford. Hallows who himself turns out to be so unstable in his actions that he has his gang of crime cops turn on even innocent bystanders who were willing to give evidence to the drug killings, in order to protect the identity of the cop killers. Hallows even has the killer cops go a step beyond even killing innocent citizens by having honest cops, and their families, who got wind of what's really going on murdered by his dirty cops; which makes them even more dangerous then the most hardened and vicious criminals in L.A.

The best reason for seeing "Officer Down" is the many aerial photography scenes of L.A in it but the story itself is hard to take. Not that there aren't any corrupt cop in LA in real life but the cops who are breaking the law in the movie are so stupid and ridicules that you wonder why they weren't caught before the film even began?

Sherilyn Fenn as Det. Kathryn Shaunessy is a bit too melodramatic as the good cop up against the system that's protecting the wrong doers in the department. Kathryns partner Det. Gary Hill, Jerry Knoll,is totally unbelievable as her partner who's, you guessed it, one of them but doesn't seem know it. Garry is totally unconscious in what trouble he's putting his innocent partner into by his actions. We get to see the good side about Gerry with the explanation of him taking $100,000.00 of dirty money from his crooked police captain Taggert (Larry Drake) who's another high ranking crook in the department, to pay for his sick fathers medical bills.

Casper van Dien is also hard to take in his zombie-like and murderous actions that are so outlandish that even his dad, Commander Hallows, a high ranking member of the LAPD had trouble covering them up.