While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption.While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption.While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 5 nominations
- LT's Son (#2)
- (as Frankie Acciarito)
- Cop One
- (as Paul Calderone)
- Cop Two
- (as Leonard Thomas)
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- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaLike many indie-minded directors of low-budget films, Abel Ferrara didn't bother with permits most of the time. "We weren't permitted on any of this stuff", editor Anthony Redman admitted. "We just walked in and started shooting." For the scene in which the strung-out lieutenant walks through a nightclub, they sent Harvey Keitel through an actual club.
- GoofsWhen the lieutenant stops the car with the two rapists inside, a passerby seen through the driver side window points at the car and can be heard saying "They got a camera."
- Quotes
Zoe: Vampires are lucky, they can feed on others. We gotta eat away at ourselves. We gotta eat our legs to get the energy to walk. We gotta come, so we can go. We gotta suck ourselves off. We gotta eat away at ourselves til there's nothing left but appetite. We give, and give and give crazy. Cause a gift that makes sense ain't worth it. Jesus said seventy times seven. No one will ever understand why, why you did it. They'll just forget about you tomorrow, but you gotta do it.
- Crazy creditsThe "Jersey Girls" character credits are reversed. The actress who plays the driver, Bianca Hunter, is listed as the passenger, and Eddie Daniels, who appears as the passenger, is listed as the driver.
- Alternate versionsThe original US NC-17 VHS version that was available for rent is completely uncut. As it was produced before the Led Zeppelin legal action, it included all usage of the Schoolly D track "Signifying Rapper."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: Sister Act/Encino Man/Alien³/Far and Away (1992)
- SoundtracksPledging My Love
Written by Don D. Robey (as Robey) / Fats Washington (as Washington)
(P) 1954 Music Corporation of America, Inc.
Performed by Johnny Ace
Used by permission of MCA Records, Inc.
Flat as a home movie, or a porno, BAD LIEUTENANT exerts a stranglehold fascination. Every clunky detail is amazing: a nun raped on the altar is interrupted by images of the Lieutenant's preschool kids watching a WW2 cartoon that chirps, "We did it before and we can do it again!" Keitel's performance convinces you that in every scene he knows exactly which internal organ is failing and why, even when the audience is left in the dark. Balls-to-the-wall in its unabashedly Martyesque vision of the Church as secret redeemer, BAD LIEUTENANT may be an even riper portrait of the shadow self of nineties America than NATURAL BORN KILLERS. It's one of those movies--BLUE VELVET comes to mind--where its maker seems to say so cogently everything he thinks and feels that you wonder why he would ever bother to make another movie. Sadly, Ferrara's post-LIEUTENANT output has borne that question out.
- nunculus
- Nov 5, 1999
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Cảnh Sát Phạm Tội
- Filming locations
- 1911 Hone Avenue, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA(St. Clare of Assisi School)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,000,022
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $47,454
- Nov 22, 1992
- Gross worldwide
- $2,038,916
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1