The plot of INTERNAL AFFAIRS is simple and familiar--good guy Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) works for the internal affairs division of the LAPD and has to take down Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a corrupt officer. The twist is that the film is really about social change in America. Gere plays Peck as an iconoclastic force of nature;.. Read more
| Starring | Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf |
|---|---|
| Director | Mike Figgis |
| Genres | Thriller |
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The plot of INTERNAL AFFAIRS is simple and familiar--good guy Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) works for the internal affairs division of the LAPD and has to take down Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a corrupt officer. The twist is that the film is really about social change in America. Gere plays Peck as an iconoclastic force of nature; he charms everyone he meets, runs the force by trading favors and protecting his own, and has eight kids with four wives. He sees himself as a throwback to an older notion of manhood and professional effectiveness. Avila, on the other hand, is a hero but also--as Peck calls him--a yuppie, seeking promotion in the internal affairs division and involved in a childless marriage with a successful museum curator (Nancy Travis). As Peck pushes Avila's buttons, the situation is further complicated by Avila's Latin temper--a kind of supressed, true ethnic self that increasingly reveals itself as the two men's struggle reaches a primal level. British director Mike Figgis is an outsider looking in, and his ideas about American society are to some extent generalizations, but nevertheless they have the ring of truth in this intense cop fable.
| Starring | Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf, William Baldwin |
|---|---|
| Director | Mike Figgis |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 50 mins Watch now: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: |
| Collections | 100 Cops & Robbers |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 05 Mar 2001 Watch now: 12 Aug 2009 Production year: 1990 |
| Watch now | £2.49 |
| Format | DVD |
In this gripping thriller from Leaving Las Vegas director Mike Figgis, Andy Garcia stars as an Internal Affairs investigator who's determined to prove that fellow police officer Richard Gere is corrupt. Gere is especially good as the dishonest and often violent policeman, but, in the end, this film focuses more on Gere's general nastiness than the interesting vendetta between the pair that starts the movie.
"...Figgis has established himself as a master of steamy sex appeal....[INTERNAL AFFAIRS is] an unusally bright light..."
Taut fairly fast paced with a vicious action that keeps you on the edge of your seat for most of the movie.
A classic doppelganger film. Two men one good, one bad, fighting their cause from different ends of the spectrum. Then add a lady to stir it all up, and bring the characters closer together with dangerous consequences.
The end result? Well watch the film.
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