A killer is targeting New York City strippers, and world-weary policeman Al Wheeler (Billy Dee Williams) confronts sleazes Matt Rossi (Tom Berenger) and Nicky Parenzo (Jack Scalia), who have a hand in the local adult entertainment scene. Wheeler wants the duo to dig up some clues and threatens to find find a reason to put them behind bars. But, as Matt watches his stripper ex-lover, Loretta (Melanie Griffith), cope with the murders through drug abuse, he decides to hunt down the killer himself.
talent scout, boxer, ex-lover, stripper, police officer, mobster, brutal, raw, disturbing, unrestrained, manhattan, n.y., strip club, street, police station, subway, hospital, serial murders, vigilantism, drug addiction, mafia, inner-city life, investigation, wretched excess, pursuit, love, 1980s
Provides a fascinating journey to a city that has gradually ceased to exist: that dirty, dangerous and rather hostile New York. [Full review in Spanish]
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