Action · Thriller
Q & A
When the questions are dangerous, the answers can be deadly.
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.
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Top Cast
Nick Nolte
Mike Brennan
Timothy Hutton
Al Reilly
Armand Assante
Bobby Texador
Patrick O'Neal
Kevin Quinn
Lee Richardson
Leo Bloomenfeld
Luis Guzmán
Luis Valentin
Charles S. Dutton
Sam Chapman
Jenny Lumet
Nancy Bosch
Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Production
Regency EnterprisesReviews
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5/109/10/2022
Q & A is the third entry in Sidney Lumet’s loose trilogy about NYPD corruption, and by far the most pessimistic. While Al Pacino and Treat Williams are given an admittedly tough choice in Serpico and Prince of the City, here Timothy Hutton comes to learn that one man can’t make a difference after all. The ending is as frustrating to the viewers as it is to he hero, because we find out that the character’s hands were tied all along; instead of going over people’s heads and behind their backs, Al Reilly (Hutton) might as well have played ball from the get-go, which would have at least had the consolation that a low fewer people would have died in the process. In Serpico and Prince of the City, Lumet addressed corruption as a problem that one had to have the balls to attack head-on; in
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