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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

★ 6.6R122 minDirector: Werner Herzog

2009 film by Werner Herzog

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a 2009 American black comedy crime drama film directed by Werner Herzog, written by William Finkelstein, and starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, and Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner. The film is a spiritual successor to the 1992 film Bad Lieutenant, and is not a remake according to Herzog. Nonetheless, the director of the original Bad Lieutenant film, Abel Ferrara, expressed dismay that the Herzog film was being made. Both Bad Lieutenant films were produced by Edward R. Pressman.

The film premiered on September 9, 2009, at the 66th Venice International Film Festival where it won the Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award for Herzog. It opened in general release in the United States on November 20, 2009.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans about?
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) — After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using pr
Is Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans scary?
Content rating: R. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.