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Street Justice (1989)

Street Justice poster
Directed by
Richard C. Sarafian
Genre
action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
R
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A CIA agent survives a bombing and escapes Soviet captivity. He returns to his New Jersey hometown to protect his wife from a corrupt family that runs the town.

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What happens

Street Justice is a 1987 American action film directed by Richard C. Sarafian. The plot involves CIA agent Curt Flynn (Michael Ontkean) who narrowly avoids death in a bombing, escapes from imprisonment by the Soviets, and returns to his New Jersey hometown. There he attempts to protect his wife Catherine (Joanna Kerns) from a corrupt family which controls the town. Despite being set in New Jersey, the bulk of filming took place in Toronto. Street Justice was Dukes of Hazzard star Catherine Bach's debut as a lead in a feature film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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