Movie Info
Genre
Crime, DramaRelease Date
September 12, 2008Production Budget
$60 millionsStudio
Overture FilmsOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
Jon AvnetProducer
Jon Avnet, Avi Lerner, Randall Emmett, Boaz Davidson, George Furla, Alexandra MilchanScreenwriter
Russell GewirtzStarring
- Robert De Niro as Turk
- Al Pacino
- 50 Cent as Spider
- Donnie Wahlberg
- Carla Gugino as Karen Kleisner
- Dan Futterman
- Trilby Glover
- Rob Dyrdek
- John Leguizamo
- Brian Dennehy
Movie Story
Academy Award winners Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) and Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) star as a pair of veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of a vigilante serial killer in the adrenaline fueled psychological thriller Righteous Kill, directed by Jon Avnet (Red Corner, Fried Green Tomatoes) and written by Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man). The cast also features hip-hop superstar Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson (Get Rich or Die Tryin').
After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before.
Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own--take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?
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