This has to be one of the best films that I've seen Richard Gere act in. He stars alongside Andy Garcia (well worth watching in anything) and Laurie Metcalf (of Roseanne fame, she was the sister) who's surprisingly good playing it straight.
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Mike Figgis'Internal Affairsmakes great play with some fairly obvious ironies--"Trust me, ... more
I'm a cop", Richard Gere says to a couple for whom he is arranging the death of their parents--but its real strength lies in a cluster of central performances. Ge...
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Mike Figgis'Internal Affairsmakes great play with some fairly obvious ironies--"Trust me, ... more
I'm a cop", Richard Gere says to a couple for whom he is arranging the death of their parents--but its real strength lies in a cluster of central performances. Ge...
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Dennis Peck knows his way around the law. He can launder money, run a scam, fix a bad rap. ... more
He can even, for the right price, arrange a murder. 'Trust me,' he says, 'I'm a cop. 'Richard Gere is Peck and Andy Garcia is Raymond Avila, the investigator det...
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The answer will no doubt make some appeal to the state your brain is now in. Most philosophers claim that many of the facts that determine your thoughts lie outside your skin. This view is called externalism. This book argues that externalism is implausible.
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Advantages: Gere's performance Disadvantages: storyline a bit weak
...& Metcalf who work for internal affairs.
The film centres round Gere's dodgy deals, his intimidation and manipulation of people and Garcia's obsession with nailing him.
The storyline is relatively middle of the road and really centres around Gere winding people up, avoiding detection and Garcia obsessing about him. Inevitably of course at the end Gere gets his comeupance.
I don't really remember much of ... ...since I've seen the film. The reason for the review and the recommendation to watch it is to see Richard Gere at his finest. I'm actually not a Gere fan and the only reason I watched this was because of Andy Garcia, but I'm glad that I did as it's a fine acting performance from Gere.
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This has to be one of the best films that I've seen Richard Gere act in. He stars alongside Andy Garcia (well worth watching in anything) and Laurie Metcalf (of Roseanne fame, she was the sister) who's surprisingly good playing it straight.
Gere plays a corrupt and thoroughly sleazy cop who is under investigation by Garcia & Metcalf who work for internal affairs.
The film centres round Gere's dodgy deals, his intimidation and manipulation of people and Garcia's obsession with nailing him.
The storyline is relatively middle of the road and really centres around Gere winding people up, avoiding detection and Garcia obsessing about him. Inevitably of course at the end Gere gets his comeupance.
I don't really remember much of the plot as such as it's a couple of years since I've seen the film. The reason for the review and the recommendation to watch it is to see Richard Gere at his finest. I'm actually not a Gere fan and the only reason I watched this was because of Andy Garcia, but I'm glad that I did as it's a fine acting performance from Gere.
...form) is a correct, honest Internal Affairs' agent, and he receives the mission to investigate Dennis Peck (Richard Gere, in what can be easily pointed as his best career's performance), a corrupt,charming and cruel cop who has a lot of ex-wives and sons.The moment in which Peck and Avila are together breaks out an explosive hostility: Peck starts to talk about family, and suddenly touches in a sensitive issue, Avila's wife.Avila doesn't like Peck's ...
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A cop who knows his way around the law can launder money or fix a bad rap and if the price is right can arrange a murder. But an Internal Affairs Investigation is on to his case and now everything is on the line...
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PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DIST. SERVICES
Dolby Digital 5.1 English Dolby Digital Surround German
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"...Hypnotically directed....Gere is the essence of insinuating evil..." -- Rating: B+ (Entertainment Weekly, pp.88-9, 18/10/1996)
"...Figgis has established himself as a master of steamy sex appeal....[INTERNAL AFFAIRS is] an unusally bright light..." (New York Times, p.C10, 12/01/1990)
"...The film really heats up..." -- 3 out of 4 stars (USA Today, p.2D, 12/01/1990)
DVD Description
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.
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