Stars: Andy Garcia, Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin, Ian Holm, Ron Leibman, Colm Feore, James Gandolfini

Director: Sidney Lumet

Summary: Sean Casey joins the New York district attorney's office after years as a street cop and a part time law student. He successfully prosecutes a high profile case and feels that at last everything is within reach, but he soon discovers the case was based on tainted evidence...

In Sidney Lumet's NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN, an ex-policeman who takes a job as a district attorney is forced to choose between upholding the law and protecting his family when his father--also a cop--is implicated on corruption charges.

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The dominant themes of director Sidney Lumet's distinguished career are in full force in Night Falls on Manhattan, a moral melodrama involving a young district attorney (Andy Garcia) who takes on a career-making case only to uncover his father's possible involvement in pervasive police corruption. Balancing personal ethics and political compromise in a high-wire act of power and its abuse, Lumet relies on dialogue and superb performances (including those by Ron Leibman, Richard Dreyfuss and Lena Olin) to achieve a devastating impact. The script (based on the novel Tainted Evidenceby Robert Daley) is too smart and Lumet's direction too sure-footed to fall back on the black-and-white exploits of conventional criminals and their crimes. The movie's moral framework (like that of Lumet's earlier film Q&A) is more realistic, dealing in the grey areas between right and wrong where misdeeds can arise from the best intentions. At the centre of Garcia's dilemma is his father, a seasoned New York cop played so convincingly by Ian Holm that you'd never guess the actor was British. Although it received mixed reviews when released in 1997, Night Falls on Manhattanranks among Lumet's finest films. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailers, Filmographies, Commentary
Subtitles:	None
Year:	1996
Release Date:	June 4, 2001
Runtime:	108 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	V A D 10018
Keywords:	Night, Off, General, Manhattan, Wide, Screen, Falls, Drama, Schedule
Genre:	Drama