Deep cover / New Line Cinema presents a Pierre David/Henry Bean production ; a Bill Duke film ; story by Michael Tolkin ; screenplay by Michael Tolkin and Henry Bean ; produced by Pierre David and Henry Bean ; directed by Bill Duke.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC3278DDVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Series: Criterion collection ; 1086.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]Copyright date: ©1992Edition: Director-approved two-DVD special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm)Content type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781681438603
- 1681438607
- Deep cover (Motion picture)
- Director of photography Bojan Bazelli ; editor, John Carter ; music, Michel Colombier.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Laurence Fishburne plays no-nonsense LAPD narc Russell Stevens, Jr., who has worked all his life to expunge the memory of his dope-addict father, whom he saw die in a liquor-store robbery. DEA agent Jerry Carver (Charles Martin Smith) orders Stevens to work as an undercover operative on a major case. The cop is to pose as a dealer in order to get the goods on South American drug lord. Stevens is so convincing as a dealer, that he fast works his way up through the ranks and gains the trust of lawyer and narcotics dealer David Jason (Jeff Goldblum) and his sinister associates, all lackeys to the kingpin who is the target of Stevens' assignment. Through a series of fantastic but credible circumstances, Stevens eliminates the lower echelon, getting closer to his quarry, but in the process he finds himself so deep into the sinister and seductive world of the drug trade that he may never get out. In a surprise move, and just when he is about to bring the ringleader down, the DEA pulls the plug on his assignment, because the top dealer, an influential Latin American politician, may someday be useful to the State Department. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Title from screen credits.
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1:85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby 2.0 surround.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard, Charles Martin Smith, Sydney Lassick, Clarence Williams III, Gregory Sierra.
Director of photography Bojan Bazelli ; editor, John Carter ; music, Michel Colombier.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1992.
MPAA rating: R; for violence, language, drug use, and sensuality.
"Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne stars as Russell Stevens, a police officer who goes undercover as 'John Hull,' the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker (Jeff Goldblum), in order to bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in LA. But the further Stevens descends into this ruthless world of money, violence, and power, the more disillusioned he becomes--and the harder it is to make out the line between right and wrong, crime and justice. Steeped in shadowy, neon-soaked atmosphere and featuring Dr. Dre's debut solo single, Deep Cover is an unsung gem of the nineties' Black cinema explosion that delivers a riveting character study and sleek action thrills alongside a furious moral indictment of America and the devastating failures of the war on drugs"--Container.
Features: New 4K digital restoration; New interview with director Bill Duke; AFI Conservatory seminar from 2018 featuring Duke and actor Laurence Fishburne, moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell; New conversation between film scholars Racquel J. Gates and Michael B. Gillespie about Deep Cover's place within both the Black film boom of the early 1990s and the noir genre; New conversation between scholar Claudrena N. Harold and professor, DJ, and podcaster Oliver Wang about the film's title track and its importance to the history of hip-hop; Trailer; An essay by Gillespie.