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Rampart (2011) - Movie Details

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Release Date: November 23, 2011 (LA/NY)
February 10, 2012 (Limited)
On DVD: May 15, 2012
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director: Oren Moverman
Writer: James Ellroy
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, Ned Beatty
Studio: Millennium Entertainment
Running Time: 103 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for pervasive language, sexual content and some violence

Officer Dave Brown (Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways...

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Corrupt cops should know better than to beat a suspect to a pulp in the YouTube age. From the director of the excellent drama The Messenger, Woody Harrelson stars as an LA police officer who gets caught red handed - you guessed it - beating a suspect to a pulp in Rampart, a movie with a lot going for it. Not so much to show for it.

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