Deep cover

DVD 2021

Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne stars as Russell Stevens/John Hull, a police officer who goes undercover as the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker (Jeff Goldblum) in order to infiltrate and bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in LA. But the further Stevens descends into this ruthl...

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Drugs Fiction

Police Fiction

Undercover operations Fiction

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Crime films Feature films Fiction films Police films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1086 Criterion collection ; 1086 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681438603

Edition:

Director-approved two-DVD special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (107 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 2.0
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A
MPAA rating: R; for violence, language, drug use, and sensuality

Other Title:

Deep cover (Motion picture) [DVD]

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1992
Special features: New interview with Bill Duke; new conversations; panel discussion from 2018; essay by Gillespie
Music by Michel Colombier; director of photography Bojan Bazelli
Larry Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard, Charles Martin Smith, Sydney Lassick, Clarence Williams III, Gregory Sierra
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0
For private home use only
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
Audio tracks in English, captions in English

Contents:

Disc 1. Deep cover (DVD)
Disc 2. Bonus disc (DVD)

Control Number:

3077245

UPC:

715515261715

Other Authors:

Bazelli, Bojan, director of photography
Bean, Henry, screenwriter
Colombier, Michel, composer
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
David, Pierre, film producer
Dillard, Victoria, 1969- actor
Duke, Bill, 1943- film director
Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961- actor
Goldblum, Jeff, 1952- actor
Lassick, Sydney, actor
New Line Cinema Corporation, production company
Sierra, Gregory, actor
Smith, Charles Martin, actor
Tolkin, Michael, screenwriter
Williams, Clarence, III, 1939-2021, actor

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