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By Sidney Lumet from the book by Edwin Torres - Film

FilmScreen8 minutes into the movie

Roles

  • Lieutenant Michael Brennan - Adult (36-50), Male

About this piece

Lieutenat Brennan's story of arresting Mr Calabrese

Summary

A young Assistant District Attorney, Al Francis Reilly (Timothy Hutton) is assigned to a homicide case of a corrupt detective, Lieutenant Michael Brennan (Nick Nolte), who has killed a drug dealer in cold blood. In this scene Reilly meets Brennan for the first time. Brennan is in the police station telling a funny story of one of his arrests to other cops. Reilly enters the room as Brennan is telling the story....

Tone

MockingReminiscing life story/Telling a story

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