Night Falls on Manhattan
In a city of nine million people is there room for one honest man?
1997 | 113m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Sidney Lumet |
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| Writer: | Robert Daley, Sidney Lumet |
| Staring: |
| A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 21, 1997 |
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| Director: | Sidney Lumet |
| Writer: | Robert Daley, Sidney Lumet |
| Genres: | Drama, Crime, Thriller |
| Keywords | corruption, drug dealer, police, police corruption, district attorney, nypd, the lost evidence |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures, Spelling Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $9,889,670
Budget: $10,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Andy García | Sean Casey |
| Ian Holm | Liam Casey |
| James Gandolfini | Joey Allegretto |
| Lena Olin | Peggy Lindstrom |
| Shiek Mahmud-Bey | Jordan Washington |
| Colm Feore | Elihu Harrison |
| Ron Leibman | Morgenstern |
| Richard Dreyfuss | Sam Vigoda |
| Dominic Chianese | Judge Impelliteri |
| Paul Guilfoyle | McGovern |
| Bonnie Rose | Instructor |
| Norman Matlock | Detective |
| Sidney Armus | Judge |
| Bobby Cannavale | Vigoda Assistant #1 |
| Marcia Jean Kurtz | Eileen |
| Jude Ciccolella | Lieutenant Wilson |
| John Randolph Jones | Captain Lawrence |
| Jim Moody | Mayor Williams |
| Frank Vincent | Captain |
| James Murtaugh | Man in Asylum |
| Melba Martinez | Legal Aid Attorney |
| Santo Fazio | Eduardo |
| Anthony Alessandro | Shmuel |
| David Fonteno | Captain #1 |
| John Seitz | Captain #2 |
| Robert Sean Miller | Captain #3 |
| Stephen Beach | Cop #2 |
| Vincent Pastore | Cop #3 |
| Nafisah Sayyed | Half-Naked Girl |
| Chuck Pfeiffer | Captain Gentile |
| Clark D. Williams | News #1 |
| Bill Boggs | News #2 |
| Tamara Phillips | News #3 |
| Louis Guss | Court Clerk |
| Richard Bright | 64 Precinct Lieutenant |
| Ronald von Klaussen | 65 Precinct Sergeant |
| John Di Benedetto | Patrolman #2 |
| Kevin Ramsey | Sean's Assistant |
| Kermit Frazier | Jury Foreman |
| Veronica Hall | Pier Cop |
| Vic Noto | Police Diver Cochran |
| Socorro Santiago | Lab Assistant |
| Fran Anthony | Moderator |
| Donna Hanover | TV Newsperson #1 |
| Jack Cafferty | TV Newsperson #3 |
| Kaity Tong | TV Newsperson #4 |
| Allen Collodow | Cop #1 |
| Dennis Paladino | Cop #2 |
| Mike Cammallere | Sergeant #1 |
| Jim Mauro | Lieutenant #1 |
| Salvatore Paul Piro | Cop #4 |
| Mike Girard Sheehan | Sergeant #2 |
| Joseph Mosso | Lieutenant #2 |
| Teddy Coluca | Reporter #1 |
| Roslyn Cohn | Reporter #2 |
| Elliot Cuker | Reporter #3 |
| Yvette Mercedes | Meter Maid |
| Kristina Lear | Girl in Restaurant |
| Joe Drago | D.A. Driver |
| Catherine Schreiber | Sean's Ass't #2 |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Sam O'Steen | Editor |
| Robert Daley | Novel |
| Jennifer B. Starke | Art Department Coordinator |
| Martha Pinson | Script Supervisor |
| David Forrest | Key Makeup Artist |
| Rick Sharp | Makeup Artist |
| Brett Botula | Location Manager |
| Rick Raphael | "B" Camera Operator |
| Xiomara Comrie | Second Assistant Camera |
| Lilith Jacobs | Post Production Supervisor |
| James Hammer | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Fred Merusi | Construction Coordinator |
| Nicholas Renbeck | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Fred Rosenberg | Dialogue Editor |
| Bruce Pross | Foley Supervisor |
| Stuart Stanley | Foley Editor |
| Peter Sobich Jr. | Assistant Production Coordinator |
| Tim Guinness | Chief Lighting Technician |
| Robert H. Paquette | Key Construction Grip |
| Jakob Trollbäck | Title Designer |
| Kerry Barden | Casting |
| Joseph G. Aulisi | Costume Design |
| Robert Guerra | Art Direction |
| Philip Rosenberg | Production Design |
| Danny Bramson | Music Supervisor |
| Monica Levinson | Production Coordinator |
| Eric Swanek | First Assistant Camera |
| Adger W. Cowans | Still Photographer |
| David Sardi | First Assistant Director |
| Anthony Ortiz | Boom Operator |
| Ann Miller | Property Master |
| Trish Adlesic | Assistant Location Manager |
| Dan Evans Farkas | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Gina Alfano | Dialogue Editor |
| Steven Visscher | Foley Editor |
| Annette Kudrak | Music Editor |
| Keri Lederman | Production Secretary |
| Scott Gertsen | Key Carpenter |
| Pat Distefano | Extras Casting |
| Phil Hetos | Color Timer |
| Billy Hopkins | Casting |
| Carolyn Cartwright | Set Decoration |
| KG Ramsey | Hairstylist |
| Michael Kriston | Key Hair Stylist |
| Ken Ferris | Camera Operator |
| Pamela Rittelmeyer | Second Assistant Camera |
| Les Lazarowitz | Production Sound Mixer |
| Maggie Murphy | Second Assistant Director |
| Toussaint Kotright | Cableman |
| Robin Koenig | Leadman |
| Deborah Wallach | ADR Editor |
| Glenfield Payne | Sound Effects Editor |
| Kam Chan | Foley Editor |
| Jeffrey T. Bernstein | Second Second Assistant Director |
| Sal Lanza | Dolly Grip |
| Ed Larkin | Key Construction Grip |
| Jennifer McNamara | Casting Associate |
| Michael Hyde | Transportation Coordinator |
| Sidney Lumet | Screenplay, Director |
| David Watkin | Director of Photography |
| Suzanne Smith Crowley | Casting |
| Jack Gill | Stunt Coordinator |
| Celia D. Costas | Unit Production Manager |
| Ron Bochar | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Conrad 'Connie' F. Brink | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Robert Easton | Dialect Coach |
| Mark Isham | Original Music Composer |
| Peter Bucossi | Stunts |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Josh Kramer | Producer |
| John H. Starke | Co-Producer |
| Thom Mount | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 9 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17 | 27 | 10 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 11 | 19 | 7 |
| 2025 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
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This film starts and ends with some lovely jazz, thereafter it is all rather an unremarkable crime thriller. When a drug dealer kills three cops and then escapes in a patrol car, the District Attorney "Morgie" (Ron Liebman) announces that when the perpetrator is apprehended, he is going to be prosec ... uted by the newly qualified lawyer (and ex-cop) son of one of those officers seriously injured by the attacker. "Casey" (Andy Garcia) is that man, and after a curiously far-fetched turn of events finds himself facing the killer in court and next thing, he is DA himself and party to an investigation into police corruption that might well lead to his own nearest and dearest. To be honest, I found this whole thing all just too convenient. It's all just a bit too "nice" and the courtroom scenes at the start which also feature Richard Dreyfuss are really underwhelming. The plot is messy and the conclusion really lacks, well, substance. It looks good and combined with the score is effective at creating a New York that is seedy and immoral - but Garcia just hasn't the gravitas to pull this off and Ian Holm (his father "Liam") is no great shakes either. It's watchable on the telly on a wet winter's evening, but that's about the height of it, sorry.