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Brooklyn’s Finest is a 2010 American crime film starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, and Wesley Snipes. It is directed by Antoine Fuqua, and written by Michael C. Martin, a one-time subway flagger from East New York. It was the first film to sell at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, for a sales price of “under 5 million dollars.” The film was released in North America on March 5, 2010.
Plot :
Brooklyn’s Finest takes place within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects in the NYPD’s sixty-fifth precinct. Three policemen struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong. Eddie (Richard Gere) is a week from retirement after twenty-two years of less-than-exemplary service to the force when he’s assigned to oversee rookies in the tough neighborhoods. His life in shambles, Eddie is barely hanging on, swilling whiskey in the morning to get out of bed. His only friend is the prostitute he frequents.
Tango (Don Cheadle) is an undercover cop working the drug beat. But he tires of the kind of attention that a black man in a black car attracts, and he’s been begging for a promotion and a desk job for years. He’s finally offered a way out and it means betraying a close friend Caz, a known criminal (Wesley Snipes) recently released from federal prison.
Sal (Ethan Hawke), desperate for money to feed and house his rapidly growing family, has started pocketing the money left on the table during drug raids. Deeply religious, he finds that he’s in the bad place of trying to reconcile his misdeeds with his needs. The mold in the walls of his home is making his wife (Lili Taylor) ill and endangering the life of his unborn twins. And the down payment on his coveted new house is past due.
Federal Agent Smith (Ellen Barkin) instructs Tango to set-up the drug deal that will assure Caz’s arrest and return to federal prison. Eddie’s first rookie assignment (Logan Marshall-Green) gets himself killed on his second day on the force when he requests to be assigned to work with another officer. Sal’s wife goes into the hospital after an asthma attack brought on my the mold in their home. Eddie’s second rookie assignment (Jesse Williams) shoots a petty drug dealer leaving the young man deaf and the NYPD facing a public relations nightmare.
When Tango goes to warn Caz to abort their upcoming drug deal, they are ambushed and Caz is shot dead under orders from Red (Michael K. Williams), a gangster Caz had humiliated earlier in a rooftop incident. Eddie turns in his badge and visits his regular hooker, Chantal (Shannon Kane) who does not want to change her life by moving with him to Connecticut. After Agent Smith remarks that Caz’s death is better than his arrest, Tango lunges at her, but is restrained by fellow agents. Tango determines to avenge Caz’s death now that he knows Red ordered the hit.
That night within the Van Dyke housing projects, Eddie, Tango, and Sal converge for very different reasons. Eddie no longer feeling suicidal rescues a missing person (Sarah Thompson) from a basement operated sex-slave dungeon. Tango gets his vengeance from Red, but then is mistaken for a gangster and is shot dead by Sal’s friend and partner Ronny Rosario (Brian F. O’Byrne). Rosario’s mission was to follow and stop Sal from stealing more drug money from an informant living within the Van Dyke housing projects. Only after shooting and killing Tango does Rosario realize he’s shot another law officer.
The closing scene shows Eddie having rescued the missing person, and an assortment of other women, and in the process having redeemed himself from the reputation he earned within the precinct of being a failure as an officer.
Cast :
* Richard Gere as Officer Eddie Dugan, a veteran cop, days from retirement.
* Don Cheadle as Detective Clarence “Tango” Butler, a cop struggling to keep his cover.
* Ethan Hawke as Detective Salvatore “Sal” Procida, a cop desperate to support his large family.
* Wesley Snipes as Casanova “Caz” Phillips, Tango’s prison buddy and one of Brooklyn’s most infamous drug dealers.
* Jesse Williams as rookie Officer Eddie Quinlan
* Will Patton as Bill Hobarts, the lieutenant watching over Tango’s undercover work.
* Lili Taylor as Angela, Sal’s wife
* Shannon Kane as Chantel
* Ellen Barkin as Agent Smith
* Vincent D’Onofrio as Carlo
* Brían F. O’Byrne Officer Ronny Rosario, a member of Sal’s narcotics team
* Michael Kenneth Williams Red, a member of Caz’s entourag
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