Bad Lieutenant (1992) on Netflix
A corrupt New York police lieutenant snorts cocaine and bets on baseball, owing money to dangerous people. Two young men rape a nun in a church, and he takes the case.
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- IMDb7.0/1053,258 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes77%
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Plot summary
An unnamed lieutenant with the New York City police is corrupt and addicted to drugs and gambling, and he owes money to dangerous people. He trades with drug dealers and criminals, using his authority to get drugs and cash. His bookmaker warns him about the debt. Two young men rape a nun inside a church, and the lieutenant takes the case. The nun tells him she has forgiven them.
Cast
- Brian McElroyas Lieutenant's Son (#1)
- Frankie Acciaritoas Lieutenant's Son (#2)
- Dana Deeas Lieutenant's Baby Girl
- Anthony Ruggieroas Lite
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- So much was rewritten on set that two characters were cut. The vampire speech that explains the lieutenant's journey was written two minutes before the camera rolled, memorized on the spot and shot in a single take.
- Authorship of the film has never been settled. Zoë Lund said she wrote the screenplay alone, thought Abel Ferrara contributed little to it, and claimed she co-directed several scenes.
- Abel Ferrara admitted in 2012 that he was taking drugs while making the film, arguing that the director and writer of such a picture needed to be using, but not the actors.
- Christopher Walken, who had worked with Abel Ferrara on King of New York, was first in line to play the unnamed lieutenant that Harvey Keitel ended up playing.
- Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, then the biggest rental chains in America, refused to stock NC-17 titles, so an R-rated cut was assembled purely so the film could sit on their shelves.
- Schoolly D's "Signifying Rapper" plays in the theatrical version but was cut from some home video editions because the track used a re-recorded guitar riff from Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" without licensing it.
- Ireland banned the film on 29 January 1993, censor Sheamus Smith judging that it would deprave or corrupt those who watched it. The DVD release was banned on the same grounds ten years later.
