Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a film directed by Werner Herzog, is set to release on November 20, 2009. Nicolas Cage stars as a good cop turned to be a drug addicted bad lieutenant. Werner Herzog received Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award in Venice film festival for this movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1095217/awards The script was written by William Finkelstein.

Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant. He got promoted after his heroic services after Hurricane Katrina. But because of an injury, he became an addict to painkillers and to complicate things more, he is in love with a prostitute and involved with a drug dealer, who is a murder suspect.

• Nicolas Cage as Terrence McDonagh, the bad lieutenant

• Eva Mendes as Frankie Donnenfeld

• Fairuza Balk as Heidi

• Val Kilmer as Stevie Pruit

• Michael Shannon as Mundt

• Shawn Hatosy as Armand Benoit

• Shea Whigham as Justin

• Tom Bower as Pat McDonough

• Irma P. Hall as Binnie Rogers

Herzog has delivered a fascinating, unflinching, darkly comical, and shamelessly unrepentant “bad cop” tale with a fresh sense of style. http://www.independent.com/news/2009/dec/01/bad-lieutenant-port-call-new-orleans/

"Ostensibly, this is the rare movie that would pull-in thugs, film school nerds, hipsters, mall people, drug addicts, and iguana enthusiasts into the same screening room." http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/26/iguana-rage-nicolas-cages-bad-lieutenant-port-of-call-new-orleans-headed-straight-to-dvd/ "In his documentaries and films Herzog puts extreme men in extreme settings and it’s the same story here as he parachutes Nicholas Cage into a post-Katrina New Orleans, leaving him to sink or swim." http://dossierjournal.com/film/bad-lieutenant-port-of-call-new-orleans/