Andy García

Ian Holm

James Gandolfini

Lena Olin

Shiek Mahmud-Bey

Colm Feore

Ron Leibman

Richard Dreyfuss

Dominic Chianese

Paul Guilfoyle

Bonnie Rose

Norman Matlock

Sidney Armus

Bobby Cannavale

Marcia Jean Kurtz

Jude Ciccolella

John Randolph Jones

Jim Moody

Frank Vincent

James Murtaugh

Melba Martinez

Santo Fazio

Anthony Alessandro

David Fonteno

John Seitz

Robert Sean Miller

Stephen Beach

Vincent Pastore

Nafisah Sayyed

Chuck Pfeiffer

Clark D. Williams

Bill Boggs

Tamara Phillips

Louis Guss

Richard Bright

Ronald von Klaussen

John Di Benedetto

Kevin Ramsey

Kermit Frazier

Veronica Hall

Vic Noto

Socorro Santiago

Fran Anthony

Donna Hanover

Jack Cafferty

Kaity Tong

Allen Collodow

Dennis Paladino

Mike Cammallere

Jim Mauro

Salvatore Paul Piro

Mike Girard Sheehan

Joseph Mosso

Teddy Coluca

Roslyn Cohn

Elliot Cuker

Yvette Mercedes

Kristina Lear

Joe Drago

Catherine Schreiber

Sidney Lumet

Robert Daley

Danny Bramson

Jack Gill

Brett Botula

Monica Levinson

Ken Ferris

Rick Raphael

Eric Swanek

Pamela Rittelmeyer

Xiomara Comrie

Adger W. Cowans

Les Lazarowitz

Celia D. Costas

David Sardi

Maggie Murphy

Lilith Jacobs

Anthony Ortiz

Toussaint Kotright

James Hammer

Ann Miller

Robin Koenig

Fred Merusi

Trish Adlesic

Ron Bochar

Nicholas Renbeck

Dan Evans Farkas

Deborah Wallach

Fred Rosenberg

Gina Alfano

Glenfield Payne

Bruce Pross

Steven Visscher

Kam Chan

Stuart Stanley

Annette Kudrak

Jeffrey T. Bernstein

Peter Sobich Jr.

Keri Lederman

Sal Lanza

Tim Guinness

Scott Gertsen

Ed Larkin

Robert H. Paquette

Pat Distefano

Jennifer McNamara

Conrad 'Connie' F. Brink

Robert Easton

Michael Hyde

Jakob Trollbäck

Phil Hetos

Josh Kramer

Thom Mount

David Watkin

Sam O'Steen

Kerry Barden

Billy Hopkins

Suzanne Smith Crowley

Philip Rosenberg

Robert Guerra

Carolyn Cartwright

Joseph G. Aulisi

Jennifer B. Starke

Martha Pinson

Mark Isham

John H. Starke

David Forrest

Michael Kriston

KG Ramsey

Rick Sharp

Peter Bucossi

Drama

Crime

Thriller

Night Falls on Manhattan

Paramount Pictures

Spelling Films

United States of America

CinemaSerf

This film starts and ends with some lovely jazz, thereafter it is all rather an unremarkable crime thriller. When a drug dealer kills three cops and then escapes in a patrol car, the District Attorney "Morgie" (Ron Liebman) announces that when the perpetrator is apprehended, he is going to be prosecuted by the newly qualified lawyer (and ex-cop) son of one of those officers seriously injured by the attacker. "Casey" (Andy Garcia) is that man, and after a curiously far-fetched turn of events finds himself facing the killer in court and next thing, he is DA himself and party to an investigation into police corruption that might well lead to his own nearest and dearest. To be honest, I found this whole thing all just too convenient. It's all just a bit too "nice" and the courtroom scenes at the start which also feature Richard Dreyfuss are really underwhelming. The plot is messy and the conclusion really lacks, well, substance. It looks good and combined with the score is effective at creating a New York that is seedy and immoral - but Garcia just hasn't the gravitas to pull this off and Ian Holm (his father "Liam") is no great shakes either. It's watchable on the telly on a wet winter's evening, but that's about the height of it, sorry.

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