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Night Falls on Manhattan

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Andy Garcia

Ian Holm

James Gandolfini

Lena Olin

Shiek Mahmud-Bey

Colm Feore

Ron Leibman

Richard Dreyfuss

Dominic Chianese

Paul Guilfoyle

Bonnie Rose

Norman Matlock

Sidney Armus

Bobby Cannavale

Marcia Jean Kurtz

Jude Ciccolella

John Randolph Jones

Jim Moody

Frank Vincent

James Murtaugh

Melba Martinez

Santo Fazio

Anthony Alessandro

David Fonteno

John Seitz

Robert Sean Miller

Stephen Beach

Vincent Pastore

Nafisah Sayyed

Chuck Pfeiffer

Clark D. Williams

Bill Boggs

Tamara Phillips

Louis Guss

Richard Bright

Ronald von Klaussen

John Di Benedetto

Kevin Ramsey

Kermit Frazier

Veronica Hall

Vic Noto

Socorro Santiago

Fran Anthony

Donna Hanover

Jack Cafferty

Kaity Tong

Allen Collodow

Dennis Paladino

Mike Cammallere

Jim Mauro

Salvatore Paul Piro

Mike Girard Sheehan

Joseph Mosso

Teddy Coluca

Roslyn Cohn

Elliot Cuker

Yvette Mercedes

Kristina Lear

Joe Drago

Catherine Schreiber

Nathan George

Robert Daley

Sidney Lumet

Brett Botula

Celia D. Costas

Danny Bramson

Les Lazarowitz

Pamela Rittelmeyer

Jack Gill

Adger W. Cowans

Rick Raphael

Eric Swanek

Xiomara Comrie

Monica Levinson

Ken Ferris

David Sardi

Annette Kudrak

Jennifer McNamara

Steven Visscher

Kam Chan

Ed Larkin

Pat Distefano

Jakob Trollbäck

Glenfield Payne

Anthony Ortiz

Gina Alfano

Peter Sobich Jr.

Tim Guinness

Scott Gertsen

Robert H. Paquette

Lilith Jacobs

Toussaint Kotright

Fred Rosenberg

Fred Merusi

Nicholas Renbeck

Dan Evans Farkas

Stuart Stanley

Ron Bochar

Conrad 'Connie' F. Brink

Keri Lederman

Michael Hyde

James Hammer

Robin Koenig

Deborah Wallach

Phil Hetos

Trish Adlesic

Jeffrey T. Bernstein

Robert Easton

Maggie Murphy

Ann Miller

Bruce Pross

Sal Lanza

Martha Pinson

Joseph G. Aulisi

Suzanne Smith Crowley

Josh Kramer

David Watkin

Kerry Barden

Carolyn Cartwright

Thom Mount

Sam O'Steen

Philip Rosenberg

Robert Guerra

Billy Hopkins

Jennifer B. Starke

Mark Isham

KG Ramsey

Michael Kriston

David Forrest

John H. Starke

Rick Sharp

Peter Bucossi

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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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Andy Garcia

Ian Holm

James Gandolfini

Lena Olin

Shiek Mahmud-Bey

Colm Feore

Ron Leibman

Richard Dreyfuss

Dominic Chianese

Paul Guilfoyle

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