State of Grace (1990)

Terry Noonan (Sean Penn) keert als undercover·agent terug naar zijn oude buurt, de beruchte New Yorkse wijk "Hell's Kitchen", om een rekening te vereffenen. Hij is gebrand op het arresteren van een keiharde Ierse maffiafamilie geleid door Frankie Flannery (Ed Harris) en zijn heethoofdige broer Jackie (Gary Oldman). Als Noonan infiltreert in de familie, stevent hij af op een gewelddadige confrontatie, waarbij de inzet wordt verhoogd door zijn oplaaiende gevoelens voor Flannery's zus (Robin Wright Penn).

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Terry Noonan returns to New York's Hell's Kitchen after twelve years to find that his old neighborhood of seedy bars and Irish-American mobsters has been taken over by Yuppies hell-bent on gentrification. Terry's childhood buddies, ruthless gang leader Frankie Flannery and his psychotic brother Jackie, are determined to keep the neighborhood's tradition of organized -- and extremely violent -- crime alive. Terry joins Frankie's gang and gets back together with his former love, Frankie's sister Kathleen. But as the cops crack down on the Flannery crime ring, it becomes clear that Terry's loyalties are dangerously ...
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This directorial effort from Phil Joanou stars Sean Penn as an Irish-American undercover cop working the Hell's Kitchen beat. Penn is ostensibly on a sentimental journey to his old neighborhood. Actually he's been assigned to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Ed Harris, the brother of Sean's best friend Gary Oldman. Penn suffers the requisite honor vs. duty anguish when he renews his childhood romance with Harris' sister Robin Wright. State of Grace would have had more clout had it been more clear as to time and place: it's supposedly set in the 1990s, but the attitudes and behavior are pure 1970s.

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