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MOVIE · 2009

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

CrimeDramaMystery122 min

Post-Katrina New Orleans police lieutenant Terence McDonagh earns a medal for heroism, then finds his life tilting after a back injury leaves him dependent on painkillers and tangled in a murder case involving a family of African immigrants. Nicolas Cage is McDonagh, a decorated cop whose investigation runs through dealers, gamblers, and corrupt officers as his judgment frays. Werner Herzog frames the city as flood-scarred and off-balance, where police work, vice, and hallucination keep colliding.

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