Garrison, New Jersey, numerous hitches with Internal Affairs.
One hour forty-five minutes.
The Sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community, populated by New York City police officers, slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption.
I look at this town, and I don’t like what I see anymore. (Stallone as Sheriff.)
Song by Bruce Springstein.
Directed by James Mangold, film titan.
God knows we’ve had enough movies and shows about cops over the years. But among the few titles that have recently gained some grim prescience, we can count James Mangold’s 1997 drama Cop Land, about a fictional New Jersey town populated and run largely by New York City cops. The film looks at the phenomenon of police living far from the communities they’re supposed to protect — and the cultlike, us-versus-them mentality that emerges as a result. It opens with the killing of two Black teenagers by a drunken officer (played by Michael Rapaport) on the George Washington Bridge. Immediately, a corrupt old-boy network closes in to shield the man from the repercussions. The person who ultimately has to untangle it all is a meek, partially-deaf small-town New Jersey sheriff (played by Sylvester Stallone, in probably his best performance), who has, up until now, turned a blind eye to the criminal behavior of the cops who control his town.
This does for cops what LADDER 49 did for firemen. 2004. Phoenix and Travolta.
But what if the cops prove ineffective. Time for a vigilante?
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