Internal Affairs (film)

Infobox Film
name = Internal Affairs


caption = DVD cover
director = Mike Figgis
producer = Frank Mancuso Jr.
writer = Henry Bean
starring = Richard Gere Andy García Laurie Metcalf Nancy Travis William Baldwin Elijah Wood
music = Brian Banks Mike Figgis Anthony Marinelli
cinematography = John A. Alonzo
editing = Robert Estrin
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = January 12, 1990
runtime = 114 min.
rating =
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0099850

"Internal Affairs" is a 1990 American crime thriller film set in Los Angeles about the police department's Internal Affairs Division.

Directed by Mike Figgis, the film stars Richard Gere as Dennis Peck, a suave womanizer, clever manipulator and crooked cop who uses his fellow officers as pawns for his own nefarious purposes while showing a tender side as a devoted father. Andy García plays Raymond Avilla, the Internal Affairs agent who becomes obsessed in catching Peck when he suspects that Peck is not the poster boy police officer that the precinct has made him out to be.

Tagline: Trust him... he's a cop.

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Plot

Raymond Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the LAPD and is assigned to work with Amy Wallace. They are soon looking closely at the activities of police officer Dennis Peck, whose financial holdings start to suggest something suspect.

Peck's partner, Van Stretch, comes under pressure from Avila to provide evidence against Peck in return for immunity from prosecution. Peck threatens to make advances on Kathleen Avila, Raymond's wife, if Avila still persists in his investigation. While Peck and Van Stretch are investigating an abandoned vehicle, Van Stretch is shot and wounded, and as the perpetrator emerges, he is congratulated by Peck. Peck kills the perpetrator too, and then chokes Van Stretch to death before the back-up officers arrive. Peck tells investigators that the perpetrator killed Van Stretch and that he himself had to kill the perpetrator in self-defense.

Later, Peck meets with Kathleen Avila in a bid to convince her that Raymond is obsessed with him and wants to establish if she has noticed any strange behaviour in her husband. Raymond witnesses this meeting, then storms back to his office. Peck goes to the office also, assaults Raymond, and then throws a pair of panties at Raymond, convincing him that he has just had sex with Kathleen. Raymond, in a fit of pique, confronts and slaps Kathleen at a restaurant meeting. The two make up the following morning when Kathleen convinces Raymond that she had not slept with Peck.

Avila and Wallace's continued pressure on Peck's family bears fruit when Peck's wife reveals that one of his associates is a criminal, Steven Arrocas.

At Arrocas' house, Steven catches Peck making love to his wife. Peck tries to goad Arrocas into killing his wife, but Arrocas accidentally shoots Peck in the foot instead. Peck kills Arrocas. Avila and Wallace arrive at the Arrocas residence and Wallace is shot by Peck before fleeing. Avila, fearing for his wife's safety, returns home to find Peck about to assault his wife. Avila, unnoticed, holds Peck at gun-point and then ....

Cast

*Richard Gere as Dennis Peck
*Andy Garcia as Raymond Avila
*Laurie Metcalf as Amy Wallace
*Nancy Travis as Kathleen Avila
*William Baldwin as Van Stretch
*Michael Beach as Dorian Fletcher
*Katherine Borowitz as Tova Arrocas
*Faye Grant as Penny Stretch
*John Kapelos as Steven Arrocas