A convincingly gritty, made-for-cable expose of police corruption and racial profiling, this film paints its antagonists with cartoonish strokes that don't entirely compromise the subject's inherent power. Divorced business executive Sally Rawlings (Dana Delany) and her ex, college professor Edward Morgan (Vondie Curtis-Hall), can't suppress the mutual attraction they still feel for each other. The interracial couple gets hassled by bigoted policeman Sergeant Wexler (Keith Carradine) and his spineless partner, David Bontempo (Justin Theroux), when they foolish decide to make love in a car late one night. Wexler seizes the opportunity to shoot Morgan in cold blood, an...
Released:
2000
Rated:
R
Length:
102 mins