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Internal Affairs (1990)

Internal Affairs poster
Directed by
Mike Figgis
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
R
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 454 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A police internal affairs investigator looks into a charismatic senior officer suspected of corruption. The officer uses his influence to manipulate those around him.

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What happens

Internal Affairs is a 1990 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed and scored by Mike Figgis, from a screenplay by Henry Bean, and starring Richard Gere and Andy García. The film follows Raymond Avilla (García), an Internal Affairs investigator for the Los Angeles Police Department, as he investigate Dennis Peck (Gere), a senior officer who may be using his colleagues as pawns for his own nefarious purposes. The film was released by Paramount Pictures on January 12, 1990. It received positive reviews from critics and was a moderate commercial success, later gaining a following on home video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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