Q & A - Sem Lei, Sem Justiça

Título original: Q & A

1990
16
2 h 12 min

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Timothy Hutton, Nick Nolte, and Armand Assante in Q & A - Sem Lei, Sem Justiça (1990)

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O policial corrupto, Mike Brennan acha que se safou de um assassinato. Mas durante um interrogatório de rotina, o correto assistente do procurador, encontra uma pista que coloca os dois em r... Ler tudoO policial corrupto, Mike Brennan acha que se safou de um assassinato. Mas durante um interrogatório de rotina, o correto assistente do procurador, encontra uma pista que coloca os dois em rota de colisão.O policial corrupto, Mike Brennan acha que se safou de um assassinato. Mas durante um interrogatório de rotina, o correto assistente do procurador, encontra uma pista que coloca os dois em rota de colisão.

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7,3 mil

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Curiosidades
Sidney Lumet: the director was unhappy with the way this movie was edited for television so he had his name removed and replaced with the pseudonym "Alan Smithee" for the television broadcast version.

Erros de gravação
Chief Quinn Patrick O'Neal asks ADA Reilly Timothy Hutton why he did not attend St. John's Law School. Hutton says his father didn't like the Jesuits. St. John's University is not a Jesuit institution. It is conducted by the Vincentians.

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Leo Bloomenfeld: [telling Al Reilly about Kevin Quinn] He's a prick. He's a racist and an anti-Semite and a prick. He wants to be Tom Dewey, and he will be. He married for politics and all he can see is way clear to God knows how high up. Years ago, when we still had executions in the state, he used to volunteer as a witness. Yeah, his first murder case, uhh he was a young A.D.A. then and I'm talking years ago... The case was shaky, circumstantial and he wanted a recommended death penalty from the jury. Before he was finished, he had them believing that poor black kid raped their mothers. He goes up to Sing-Sing for the electrocution. And the next day, we're sitting around, drinking coffee and he walks in with this grin on his face and someone says "Hey, how did it go?", he says, casually, "He fried!" and then he says, "I sure hope he was guilty!" and he laughs! Fuck him! Now and forever!

Conexões
Edited into Encontrando Forrester (2000)

Trilhas sonoras
Don't Double-Cross the Ones You Love
Song by Rubén Blades.

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"Hey, Sidney!"

"Yeah, what?" - "Who are we getting to chew up the scenery as Mike Brennan?" - "You kiddin' me? You specialising in bustin' my b**ls? Send for Nick Nolte!" - "Nick (choke) Nolte? Are you talking to me? I've just been on the phone to the mayor and the D.A. is crawlin' up my ass. You're a dinosaur, Lumet. Your ideas don't fit today. I want your director's guild ID on this desk now. People have a nasty habit of gettin' DEAD around you!"

This is one of Lumet's three hour and always worthy examinations of police corruption and compromised idealism. This is similiar to his 'Prince of the city' although it's not let down by an actor like Treat Williams who was not up to the job. Q&A suffers from some over-ripe, stagey and over played performances that are allowed to run on longer than the scene's necessity. It also has such ugliness and perversion that you wonder whether the film really needed to be made as we have been down this road before. Hutton has the best scene whereby his heart is broken by a loyal old mentor who always warned him that it was inevitable.

The main problem I have with this film is the susposed racism of the Reilly character. I'm not sure about the point of the subplot and why would a man who has a coloured girlfriend be shocked that her father is black? Surely it was on the cards.