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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783114873
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783114877
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 18, 1999
Running Time: 132 minutes
Sales Rank: 101191
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1990-04
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
A grim, disheartening view of the underside of city life, Q & A is a legal drama with a disturbing twist. Not exactly a whodunit--the guilt of policeman Nick Nolte is established early on--the plot follows the closing of the circle around him. Leading the murder investigation is Timothy Hutton's young, idealistic district attorney Al Reilly, who finds himself battling a fraudulent and cynical culture. Racism, corruption, and political machinations are all added to the mix, resulting in a film that is just a little too dense and slow-moving to capture the imagination.
Director Sidney Lumet creates a feeling of enveloping darkness around Hutton, who slowly manages to let the light in and bring the truth to the surface. With an obviously small budget, the film has more of a made-for-television feel than that of a big blockbuster and some of the performances err too much on the side of cliché. The concept of the New York melting pot is fairly effectively dismissed by the film, painting a picture of distrust between communities that often spills into violence, both verbal and physical. Not quite as unremittingly bleak as Harvey Kietel's Bad Lieutenant, Q & A is still a tough, dark piece of cinema. --Phil Udell
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - oh boy
Apart from establishing the premises of the plot, I didn't find the first hour or so all that intriguing - quite the contrary actually. The relationship story between Hutton and his ex-girlfriend was appalling. Those scenes played out like a bad soap-opera and had me fearing the worst for what was to come. Lumet should have kept his daughter out of it (and all scenes relating to it). It took a while for me to get used to Nolte as the bad guy too, as I've never seen him play the full-on villain ... Read More
Rating:  - Q & A
Excellent performances by the three leading actors two of them with well defined roles, the third one, Nolte, at the line between bad and good with a clear definition of values at the end.
Rating: - A difficult investigation..
Well directed film with amazing performance by Nick Nolte...
Nolte gives one of the most scary performances of a bad cop ever...
Conveys the complexity and superficial front of a corrupt police officer...
Timothy Hutton is also very good as a new guy who is assigned to the case...
Rating: - Those in the white hats don't always win
Nick Nolte plays a tough cop who plays rough but always gets his man. He is much respected by all his companions and bosses. However, all is not what it seems because sometimes things come out his way because he fixes them so they do. There is a chain of corruption going all the way to the top and of course the inevitable chief looking to be appointed governor. Poor Al does what he can to trap Nick Nolte's character and despite the deaths of various shady characters who "won't be missed" he does ... Read More
Rating:  - A movie from my youth revisted.
I've been an avid movie watcher and fan - especially of action movies - since I was in 5th or 6th grade. I remember begging my Mom to take me to see "Lethal Weapon," but she had reservations about her 9 year old seeing such things. One way or another, I won out and as we watched the movie together she slowly realized I was able to handle such a movie and, looking back, this was where I became a true film buff. Soon after, all gloves were off. Next came "Die Hard" and Schwarzenegger, Stallone, ... Read More
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