Rampart [DVD]

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Written by James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) and directed by Oren Moverman (The Messenger), Rampart stars Academy Awards® nominees Woody Harrelson, Ned Beatty, Sigourney Weaver, and Steve Buscemi, Ice Cube, Cynthia Nixon, Anne Heche, Ben Foster, and Robin Wright. Veteran officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) is the last of the renegade cops in the Los Angeles Department, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a downward spiral as he struggles to take care of his family, and fight for his own survival. Rampart is a brutal and action-packed cop thriller. "Woody Harrelson gives the performance of a lifetime...Training Day's swagger meets Bad Lieutenant's humour - your favourite new cop thriller". Loaded **** "A brutally watchable portrait of one of modern film's great bastards." Little White Lies Extras: Making of Rampart Cast & Crew Interview Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} From .co.uk ----------- From a screenplay by James Ellroy ("L.A. Confidential") and director Oren Moverman (O-nominated "The Messenger"), comes Rampart. Veteran officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson), dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, is the last of the renegade cops in the LAPD. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as he struggles to take care of his family, and fight for his own survival. With an all star cast including Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Foster and Steve Buscemi, this high octane cop thriller has been labelled "a film to file alongside the great LA noir masterpieces of the 1970s - dazzling, stunning and unique.