The Stool Pigeon (2010) on Netflix
R20101h 53mActionCrimeThriller
Detective Don Lee relies on informants, and his last one was attacked after his cover was blown. He recruits Ghost Jr., a street racer, to get inside an armed robber's gang.
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Plot summary
Don Lee is a Kowloon police detective whose work depends on informants. When a previous informant's cover is blown and the man is attacked, Lee grows paranoid and begins to doubt his own methods, and he is driven from his wife and home. Cher, the wife he is separated from, has amnesia after a suicide attempt months earlier. Lee recruits Ghost Jr., a street racer, as his newest informant. Ghost agrees so that he can rescue his sister from prostitution and help with his father's debt of one million dollars. His task is to get into a gang run by Barbarian, a notorious armed robber, and he enters an illegal street race to win the gang's acceptance.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Stool Pigeon (2010)
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- Director Dante Lam said he chose the theme of an informant for The Stool Pigeon because it was a good subject for exploring human nature, and that he had done research with people involved in real life.
