Q & A is a 1990 crime film co-written and directed by Sidney Lumet, based on a novel by Edwin Torres. It stars Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton and Armand Assante.
Aloysius "Al" Reilly is a young assistant district attorney, still wet behind the ears. He is handed a case by homicide chief Kevin Quinn, seeking to prove the corruption of a NYPD detective named Mike Brennan.
Brennan is something of a legend in the department. A tough, crude, decorated off...
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Q & A is a 1990 crime film co-written and directed by Sidney Lumet, based on a novel by Edwin Torres. It stars Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton and Armand Assante.
Aloysius "Al" Reilly is a young assistant district attorney, still wet behind the ears. He is handed a case by homicide chief Kevin Quinn, seeking to prove the corruption of a NYPD detective named Mike Brennan.
Brennan is something of a legend in the department. A tough, crude, decorated officer, he has a hidden dark side as well as a partnership with certain figures of organized crime. Brennan shoots and kills a small-time Puerto Rican hood and then threatens witnesses to testify that he acted in self-defense.
Reilly's case leads him to a Puerto Rican crime boss by the name of Roberto Texador, nicknamed "Bobby Tex," whose wife Nancy Bosch was once the love of Reilly's life, and a final violent confrontation between Texador and the rogue cop Brennan.
Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "It is...
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