Cop Land

Cop Land (1997) is an American dramatic film with an all-star cast, including Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, and Harvey Keitel.

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The film takes place in fictional Garrison, New Jersey, a small town across the Hudson River from New York near the George Washington Bridge where a large number of residents are New York City Police Department officers. Stallone plays the hearing-impaired police chief of Garrison whose injury keeps him from his goal of joining the NYPD.

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De Niro plays an NYPD internal affairs lieutenant, investigating Mafia-connected corruption among the officers living in Garrison, while Liotta and Keitel play NYPD detectives possibly on opposite sides of the law.

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Cop Lands themes center around corruption, lost dreams, and personal resolve. Two melancholy songs from Bruce Springsteen's The River album help set the atmosphere.

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The film was written and directed by James Mangold.

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De Niro and Keitel worked together on two previous films, Mean Streets in 1973 and Taxi Driver in 1976. Numerous supporting actors in Cop Land would later appear in The Sopranos, including Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Frank Vincent, Robert Patrick, Frank Pellegrino, John Ventimiglia, and Tony Sirico.

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Perhaps overlooked when first released theatrically, Cop Land began receiving heavy play on American cable television movie channels in the mid-2000s.

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