Night Falls on Manhattan

1996

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 71% · 31 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 64% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 9590 9.6K

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Plot summary

A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

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Top cast

Andy Garcia as Sean Casey
James Gandolfini as Joey Allegretto
Bobby Cannavale as Vigoda Assistant #1
Louis Guss as Court Clerk
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1.02 GB
1280*714
English 2.0
R
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
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2.09 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
R
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

This film starts and ends with some lovely

This film starts and ends with some lovely jazz, thereafter it is all rather an unremarkable crime thriller. When a drug dealer kills three cops and then escapes in a patrol car, the District Attorney "Morgie" (Ron Liebman) announces that when the perpetrator is apprehended, he is going to be prosecuted by the newly qualified lawyer (and ex-cop) son of one of those officers seriously injured by the attacker. "Casey" (Andy Garcia) is that man, and after a curiously far-fetched turn of events finds himself facing the killer in court and next thing, he is DA himself and party to an investigation into police corruption that might well lead to his own nearest and dearest. To be honest, I found this whole thing all just too convenient. It's all just a bit too "nice" and the courtroom scenes at the start which also feature Richard Dreyfuss are really underwhelming. The plot is messy and the conclusion really lacks, well, substance. It looks good and combined with the score is effective at creating a New York that is seedy and immoral - but Garcia just hasn't the gravitas to pull this off and Ian Holm (his father "Liam") is no great shakes either. It's watchable on the telly on a wet winter's evening, but that's about the height of it, sorry.
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Reviewed by kosmasp 9 / 10

Night and day

What a cast ... I am surprised I never saw or heard about this movie before! And the story also works quite well ... which again, with a cast like this I am not surprised in the least. Really well done on so many levels ... and touches so many subjects and issues - in society but also on a personal level. And in the political game ... and how it is played.

As always I do not want to talk about the story itself ... spoilers and all that. I will tell you that you should be squeamish! While the violence is concentrated on the beginning of the movie, it may haunt you. It does haunt the characters for sure ... but it is more than just the "simple" shootout. And while there is only a binary choice to what Richard Dreyfuss (character) tells us, I think we know what is what ... and we also know where this is heading ... and yet still it manages to surprise us in ways we may not expect. While I watched this on Prime I do wonder if there is a audio commentary that illuminates on how the movie was made and what the inspirations were for the characters ... it feels so close to reality and yet it is a story ... an exciting one!

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