Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)


Nicolas Cage            Terence McDonagh
Eva Mendes              Frankie Donnenfield
Val Kilmer              Stevie Pruit
Xzibit                  Big Fate
Fairuza Balk            Heidi
Shawn Hatosy            Armand Benoit
Jennifer Coolidge       Genevieve
Tom Bower               Pat McDonagh
Vondie Curtis Hall      Captain James Brasser
Brad Dourif             Ned Schoenholtz
Denzel Whitaker         Daryl
Irma P. Hall            Binnie Rogers
Shea Whigham            Justin
Michael Shannon         Mundt
Joe Nemmers             Larry Moy
J. D. Evermore          Rick Fitzsimon
Nicholas Sean Gomez     Evaristo Chavez
Lance E. Nichols        Jeremiah Goodhusband

Directed by:            Werner Herzog
Produced by:            Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short


A rogue detective is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs -- while playing fast and loose with 
the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of 
Hurricane Katrina he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective 
reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his tumultuous 
life is the prostitute he loves. Together they descend into their own world marked by desire, compulsion, 
and conscience.

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After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns 
a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered 
over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father's dog, 
run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts 
of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big 
score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. 
A bad lieutenant gets worse.