Narc (2002) on Netflix
Fired eighteen months earlier, narcotics officer Nick Tellis is brought back to investigate an undercover colleague's killing. He is paired with Henry Oak, the murdered man's former partner.
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Plot summary
Detroit undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis pursues a drug dealer who is holding a child hostage and shoots him dead. A bullet goes astray and strikes the child's pregnant mother, who miscarries. Eighteen months later the department hands him a stalled case: an undercover officer, Michael Calvess, has been killed. Tellis takes it on two conditions: a desk post should he win a conviction, and a partnership with Detective Henry Oak. The chief warns him that Oak is unstable. Oak says the department would rather see the Calvess case buried for political reasons. At the scene of a dealer shot dead in a bathtub, Tellis judges the death accidental and notices a SWAT shotgun whose serial number has been filed off. He visits Calvess's widow, Kathryn, and Oak arrives and confronts him.
Cast
- Tony De Santisas Medical Examiner Art Harlan
- Lloyd Adamsas Walter Dandridge
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Narc (2002)
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- Two weeks into the low-budget shoot, when money ran out, the producers and director persuaded 17 investors to fund the rest; those 17 people earned producer credits on the finished film.
- Narc nearly went direct-to-video before Tom Cruise and his producing partner Paula Wagner screened it, came aboard as executive producers, and Cruise's backing led Paramount to make a $3 million deal to release it in theaters.
- Ray Liotta had just moved to the Endeavor talent agency, the same one as Joe Carnahan, when the Narc script reached him; he met Carnahan and agreed to both star in and produce the film.
- Joe Carnahan's Narc script grew out of a short film he made as a student at San Francisco State University, and financiers rejected it, telling him, "This is an N.Y.P.D. Blue episode. Nobody cares about the cop genre anymore."
