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Mood:
- RoughCaptivatingTenseBleakSincereSuspenseful
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Plot:
- Police DetectiveDrug DealingFighting the SystemIdealismPolice CorruptionWorking UndercoverCrimesDishonesty more...
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Genres:
- CrimeDramaThriller
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century80s
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Place:
- New YorkUSA
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedPrestigious AwardsVenice Festival Winner
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Based on:
- Based on BookBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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- ProfanityViolent Content
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Prince of the City, 1981
English
USA
Profile of Prince of the City
Prince of the City can be described as tense, captivating, and rough. The plot revolves around police corruption, idealism, and working undercover. The main genres are drama, crime, and thriller. In approach, Prince of the City is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is located in New York. Prince of the City takes place in the 1980s. It is originally a true story and based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a Venice Festival winner and critically acclaimed. Note that Prince of the City involves profanity and violent content.
Summary of Prince of the City
Sidney Lumet returns to the complex and interwoven worlds of New York City police and criminals in his grand-scale film Prince of the City. The cops from the Special Investigative Unit are known as Princes of the City, working out of uniform and closely together, like a renegade family, peppering their drug-fighting duties with payoffs and behind-the-scenes drug deals of their own. Lumet's complex and operatic film commences with just such a deal, with Danny Ciello (played with swaggering magnetism by Treat Williams) and his squad busting a group of Colombian drug lords and netting themselves a clean $48,000 on the side. When Ciello is called in for questioning by the Chase Commission investigating police corruption--like Serpico before him--the seeds of doubt and guilt lead him into a dangerous game of truth and lies as he begins to inform on his colleagues. At first the adrenaline gleaned from the illegal activities of the SIU carries over to the equally dangerous tasks of ensnaring his fellow cops; however; as the countdown to redemption and revenge becomes fever-pitched, Ciello's resolve begins to crumble, so does his carefully constructed world of family, informants, stool pigeons, and partners.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 19 August 1981 |
| Runtime: | 167 min |
Cast and Crew
as Daniel Ciello
as Carla Ciello
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