Top cast:Christina Ricci,Demi Moore,Rosie O'Donnell
Director:Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:Tunisia
Year:2005
Storyline:One of the film's posters emphasized:"Doyle is bad news - but a good cop."The film's raw script was based on Robin Moore's best-selling book of the same name about the ruthless, real-life adventures of idiosyncratic Harlem special narcotics squad officers Eddie Egan (the Doyle character) and Sonny Grosso (the Russo character) - both have small cameo roles in the film and served as technical advisers for the film.g., Mathew Brady's Civil War photographs)impressive, splendidly-staged battle scenes with hundreds of extras (made to appear as thousands)extensive cross-cutting between two scenes to create a montage-effect and generate excitement and suspense (e."When he left for the men's room, she revealed that she was a functioning alcoholic when she gulped down her first glass of Chardonnay while hurriedly ordering a second one from a startled waiter.A stool sample was taken to be analyzed in a lab - and Powers happened to pour some of the sample in his coffee mug ("this coffee smells like shit").