Mulholland Falls
Director: Lee Tamahori
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Neo-noir, Crime Thriller, Indie, Period piece, Crime Fiction, Drama
Year: 1996
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, William Petersen, Bruce Dern, Kyle Chandler, Andrew McCarthy, Melanie Griffith, Treat Williams, Daniel Baldwin, Ed Lauter, John Malkovich, Chris Penn, Rob Lowe
Mulholland Falls is a 1996 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Lee Tamahori and written by Pete Dexter. The drama features Andrew McCarthy, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Connelly, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Melanie Griffith, Treat Williams, and John Malkovich.
Nolte plays the head of an elite group of four Los Angeles Police Department detectives (based on the real life "Hat Squad") who are known for stopping at nothing to maintain control of their jurisdiction. Their work has the tacit approval of the police chief (Bruce Dern).
In the early 1950s, a four-man squad of unorthodox Los Angeles Police Department detectives begins throwing its weight around by tossing Jack Flynn (William L. Petersen), a suspected organized crime figure, off a cliff on Mulholland Drive, nicknamed "Mulholland Falls" for all the men they have tossed off it. Detective Maxwell Hoover (Nick Nolte) and his partners Coolidge (Chazz Palminteri), Hall (Michael Madsen), and Relyea (Chris Penn) are called to investigate a suspicious death of a young woman found at a construction site. The evidence shows that every bone in her body is broken. A coroner deduces that she looks like she "jumped
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