Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DIST. SERVICES
Release date: 05/03/2001
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: PHE 8048
Barcode: 5014437804839
Languages
Main Language: English
Dubbed Language: German
Subtitle Language: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish
Hearing Impaired Language: English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital Surround German
Professional reviews
Review: "...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)
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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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