Internal Affairs Details

Internal Affairs

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: , Watch Online:
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