Cop
1988 · Movie · R · 110 min · ★ 6.3 · 78% critics
A rule-breaking homicide detective becomes convinced a serial killer is targeting women in Los Angeles. As pressure builds at work and at home, the investigation turns into a dark, obsessive hunt driven as much by instinct as by evidence.
Based on Blood on the Moon
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Details
- Years
- 1988
- Release date
- 1988-02-05
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (141 votes)
- Budget
- $7,000,000
About
If you enjoy dark, hard-edged police thrillers like The Pledge or Q&A, this offers a tense, grim mystery anchored by a volatile detective; Not for you if you dislike violent, murky stories or abrasive antiheroes.
Pros: intense lead performance; dark suspenseful mood; grim detective mystery | Cons: tangled plot; uneven pacing; sleazy tone
Themes
- daughter
- high school
- prostitute
- rape
- based on novel or book
- police
- sports car
- homophobia
- psychopath
- machinegun
- shotgun
- cigarette
- +25 more
Cast & crew
James Woods
as Lloyd Hopkins
Lesley Ann Warren
as Kathleen McCarthy
Charles Durning
as Dutch Peltz
Charles Haid
as Delbert W. 'Whitey' Haines
Raymond J. Barry
as Captain Frederick W. Gaffney
Randi Brooks
as Joanie Pratt
- SL
Steven Lambert
as Bobby Franco
Christopher Wynne
as Jack Gibbs
- JM
Jan McGill
as Jen Hopkins
- VW
Vicki Wauchope
as Penny Hopkins
Directed by James B. Harris