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Q & A (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Q and A
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
126 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Sidney Lumet

Written By:
Edwin Torres
Sidney Lumet

Actors:
Nick Nolte ..... Captain Michael Brennan
Timothy Hutton ..... Asst. Dist. Atty. Aloysius 'Al' Francis Reilly
Armand Assante ..... Roberto 'Bobby Tex' Texador
Patrick O'Neal ..... Kevin Quinn (Chief of Homicide)
Lee Richardson ..... Leo Bloomenfeld
Luis Guzmán ..... Det. Luis Valentin
Charles S. Dutton ..... Det. Sam 'Chappie' Chapman (Homicide)
Jenny Lumet ..... Nancy Bosch / Mrs. Bobby Texador
Paul Calderon ..... Roger Montalvo
International Chrysis ..... José Malpica
Dominic Chianese ..... Larry Pesch / Vito / Lorenzo Franconi
Leonardo Cimino ..... Nick Petrone (mob boss)
Fyvush Finkel ..... Preston Pearlstein
Gustavo Brens ..... Alfonse Segal
Martin E. Brens ..... Armand Segal

Synopsis:

In streets burning with hatred, corruption and violence, there walks a powder keg with a short fuse called Brennan (a blistering performance from Nick Nolte). When Brennan shoots a small-time crook in cold blood, he covers up the shooting as self-defence and Assistant DA Reilly (Timothy Hutton) is assigned to the investigation. Brennan's innocence rests on a clean sheet but innocence is hard to prove when key witnesses become murder Q & A victims. Someone is trying to cover for Brennan and may succeed, unless one surviving witness takes the stand: gangster, drug-runner and racketeer Bobby Texador (Armand Assante). Texador, Brennan and Reilly are as far apart as you can get when it comes to ideals - but when it comes to murder, invisible threads are drawing them together, tightening a noose around somebody's neck but whose?

Aloysius 'Al' Reilly (Hutton) is a young assistant district attorney, still wet behind the ears. He is handed a case by homicide chief Kevin Quinn, an inquiry into a shooting by NYPD detective Mike Brennan (Nolte). Brennan is something of a legend in the department. A tough, crude, decorated officer, he has a hidden dark side as well as a partnership with certain figures of organized crime. Brennan shoots and kills a small-time Puerto Rican hood and then threatens witnesses to testify that he acted in self-defense. Reilly's case leads him to a Puerto Rican crime boss by the name of Roberto Texador (Assante), nicknamed 'Bobby Tex,' whose wife Nancy Bosch was once the love of Reilly's life. It results in violent confrontations between Texador, Reilly and the rogue cop Brennan.

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him in this gritty crime film.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 21 July, 2011.