Deep Cover 1992

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 112 min

genre: crime

theme: gang

director: Bill Duke

Score: 6 / 10

Deep Cover is a 1992 American crime thriller film directed by Bill Duke from a screenplay by Henry Bean and Michael Tolkin. The film stars Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, and Charles Martin Smith. Its plot focuses on a Cincinnati-based police officer who goes undercover in a Los Angeles sting operation to bring down a West Coast drug cartel.

Plot

In 1972, Russell Stevens Jr. witnesses his drug-addicted, alcoholic father getting shot and killed while robbing a liquor store. Traumatized by his father's death, Stevens swears that he will never end up like him.

Cast

More details

author	Henry Bean Michael Tolkin
contentLocation	Los Angeles
director	Bill Duke
editor	John Carter
events	Drug Enforcement Administration
genre	crime drama thriller
keywords	alcoholic father arrest art dealer cheap hotel cincinnati claim cocaine confidential informant dea diplomatic immunity disillusion drug dealer drug trafficker fall out house judiciary subcommittee inherit kill lapd launder liquor store meet million in cash money laundering murder narcotics detective police officer self-defense south american special agent state department than the traumatize underboss undercover undercover police united states house committee on the judiciary west west coast west coast of the united states
musicBy	Michel Colombier
producer	Henry Bean Pierre David
productionCompany	Image Organization
publisher	New Line Cinema
theme	gang hood neo-noir