Directed by James B. Harris • 1988 • United States
Starring James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning

A magnetically psychotic James Woods takes the dirty-cop genre to new depths of shocking sleaze in this startlingly perverse thriller based on a James Ellroy novel and directed by Stanley Kubrick producer James B. Harris. Detective Lloyd Hopkins (Woods) doesn’t like to be told what to do, or not to do. Stripped of his badge and gun, he pursues a killer no one thinks exists. By uncovering a secret hidden in a school yearbook, he begins to piece together random clues to expose crimes dating back two decades, all the while pushing the law to its limits.