The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

Director:

Werner Herzog

Writers (WGA):

William M. Finkelstein (screenplay)
Victor Argo (earlier film "Bad Lieutenant") ...

Release Date:

11 September 2009 (Italy)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

The only criminal he can't catch is himself.

Plot:

Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants. |

Plot Keywords:

New Orleans | Eccentric | Cult Director | Aquarium | Black Humor

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

US Showtimes:

The Landmark

11:25am | 2:10pm | 4:55 | 7:40 | 10:15

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Cast

Nicolas Cage	...	Terence McDonagh
Val Kilmer	...	Stevie Pruit
Eva Mendes	...	Frankie Donnenfeld
Jennifer Coolidge	...	Genevieve
Fairuza Balk	...	Heidi
Brad Dourif	...	Ned Schoenholtz
Michael Shannon	...	Mundt
Shawn Hatosy	...	Armand Benoit
Denzel Whitaker	...	Daryl
Shea Whigham	...	Justin
Irma P. Hall	...	Binnie Rogers
Xzibit	...	Big Fate
Tom Bower	...	Pat McDonough
Vondie Curtis-Hall	...	James Brasser
Katie Chonacas	...	Tina
Lance E. Nichols	...	Jerimiah Goodhusband
Brandi Coleman	...	Yvonne
Brandy Moon	...	Duffy's wife
Lauren Pennington	...	Young woman
J.D. Evermore	...	Rick Fitzsimon
Marco St. John	...	Eugene Gratz
Deneen Tyler	...	Pharmacist
Jillian Batherson	...	D.A's Assistant
Lucius Baston	...	Deshaun 'Midget' Hackett
Michael Wozniak	...	Undercover Officer
Deena Beasley	...	Miamouna
Kyle Russell Clements	...	Lawrence
Tony Bentley	...	Hurley
Armando Leduc	...	Jeff
Sam Medina	...	Andy
Sean Boyd	...	Lt. Stoyer
Douglas M. Griffin	...	Sergeant
J. Omar Castro	...	Narcotics Detective
Nick Gomez	...	Evaristo Chavez
Tim Bellow	...	Gary 'G' Jenkins
Joe Nemmers	...	Officer Larry Moy
Noel Arthur	...	Renaldo Hayes
David Joseph Martinez	...	Juan Michel
Joel Davis	...	TV Play-by-play announcer (voice)
Jaime San Andres	...	Officer Lasseigne
Topher Jones	...	Undercover Detective
Michael Arnona	...	Police Captain
Trey Burvant	...	Dealer
Lyssa Prine	...	Nurse
Jeremy Aaron Johnson	...	Detective Yasco
Victor Hugo Palacios	...	Police Officer
Robert Pavlovich	...	Dr. Milburn
Matt Borel	...	Bernie
Roger J. Timber	...	Security Guard (as Roger Timber)
C. Stuart Rome	...	CSI Agent
Joshua Gillum	...	Host
Michael Zimbrich	...	Waiter
Lorin Moore	...	Promotion Reporter

Also Known As:

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (USA) (promotional title)

MPAA:

Rated R for drug use and language throughout, some violence and sexuality.

Runtime:

121 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Italy:T | Canada:18A (Manitoba/Ontario) | Finland:K-15 | USA:R | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (British Columbia)

Filming Locations:

Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, USA

Company:

Edward R. Pressman Film

Trivia:

In a June 2008 interview with The Guardian, Abel Ferrara, who directed and co-wrote the original Bad Lieutenant (1992), said that finding out his movie was being remade was "a horrible feeling", "like when you get robbed", and that those involved in this remake "should all die in hell". He also wondered how Nicolas Cage "can even have the nerve to play Harvey Keitel", and called screenwriter William M. Finkelstein an idiot.

Quotes:

Terence McDonagh: Shoot him again.
Deshaun 'Midget' Hackett: What for?
Terence McDonagh: His soul is still dancing.
[laughs histerically]

Movie Connections:

Remake of Bad Lieutenant (1992)

Morally Ambiguious and Sluggish

In a society that frequently refuses people higher education based on any excuse and would rather have folk working for less than 10,000 per year (the cost of keeping someone in prison is three times that-and forcing people to work at minimum wage just seems to be a preamble to Hotel the State anyway-like a conspiracy of some kind)it is hard to see the point in the letter of the law in places like New Orleans, well, within certain limits-as in killing people just ain't cool...this film blissfully jumps the fence on that one and also fails to show 'the big easy' for what it is at its core- a happily sinful playground for all adults-not just plastic badges on the make...and this film is like an agitprop remake in a new location of Bad Leut with H. Kietel done years ago. Well who cares...maybe that is the point after all, if there is any point to be had in this rambling mess of a movie. Do I like Royal Orleans? Some aspects of it but I think there is an indisputable atmosphere of lawlessness that exists there-and not all of it is fun. I think that there is an old saying that you don't take a dump on where you live-guess nobody lives in NO anymore.