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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009
Synopsis
After Hurricane Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurting his back in the process. He earns a promotion to lieutenant but develops an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, Terence is assigned a case investigating the drug-related killing of a family.
Editorial
Eyebrows were raised when Werner Herzog announced he was reimagining Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant. How do you top that perverse classic? Leaving the original far behind, Herzog ecstatically mounts a frenzied operatic fantasia, with a lead—in Nicolas Cage—on thunderous, unforgettable form.
