The Thin Blue Lie

Aug 13, 2000

1h 37m

★ 6.0

In this city, cops are kings...and brutality reigns.

Overview

Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick investigative reporter, Jonathan Neumann, has heard some troubling rumors: stories of innocent people victimized by a "goon squad" of law enforcement officers.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Helfgott-Turner Productions

Paramount Television

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Cast

Jonathan Neumann

Rob Morrow

Phil Chadway

Randy Quaid

Frank Rizzo

Paul Sorvino

Kate Johnson

Cynthia Preston

K.C.

G.W. Bailey

Art Zugler

Al Waxman

Detective Marshall

Beau Starr

Detective King

Barry Wiggins

Vinnie

Chuck Shamata

Deep Nightstick

Louis Di Bianco

Sandra Durano

Melissa DiMarco

Detective Harris

Bruce McFee

Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.

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