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Q&A

  
: Q&A
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starring: Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante, Patrick O'Neal, Lee Richardson
directed by: Sidney Lumet

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Amazon.com Details:
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783114873
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783114877
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 18, 1999
Running Time: 132 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1990-04



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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
A grim, disheartening view of the underside of city life, Q & A is a legal drama with a disturbing twist. Not exactly a whodunit--the guilt of policeman Nick Nolte is established early on--the plot follows the closing of the circle around him. Leading the murder investigation is Timothy Hutton's young, idealistic district attorney Al Reilly, who finds himself battling a fraudulent and cynical culture. Racism, corruption, and political machinations are all added to the mix, resulting in a film that is just a little too dense and slow-moving to capture the imagination.

Director Sidney Lumet creates a feeling of enveloping darkness around Hutton, who slowly manages to let the light in and bring the truth to the surface. With an obviously small budget, the film has more of a made-for-television feel than that of a big blockbuster and some of the performances err too much on the side of cliché. The concept of the New York melting pot is fairly effectively dismissed by the film, painting a picture of distrust between communities that often spills into violence, both verbal and physical. Not quite as unremittingly bleak as Harvey Kietel's Bad Lieutenant, Q & A is still a tough, dark piece of cinema. --Phil Udell



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Three and a half stars
Good crime drama. Decent perf. by Timothy Hutton, but Armand Assante's performance is the stand-out one.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Q & A DVD Review
Another solid police drama directed by Sidney Lumet. This film is well-written and well-acted; however, in my opinion, its musical score is very lousy.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Better than most good cop bad cop NYC cop stuff
The bad guys were well done - the good guys were pretty thin - and the sex star was terrible. Nick was very good - but no fun like in 48 Hours.


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Total Cr@p
Apart from establishing the premises of the plot, I didn't find the first hour or very intriguing - quite the contrary actually. The relationship story between Hutton and his ex-girlfriend was appalling. Those scenes played out like a bad soap-opera and had me fearing the worst for what was to come. Lumet should have kept his daughter out of it (and all scenes relating to it). It took a while for me to get used to Nolte as the bad guy too, as I've never seen him play the full-on villain before (he's usually the hard-edged good guy). He was as over-the-top as many of the other players in this cop corruption movie (doesn't Sidney Lumet do anything besides cop-corruption movies?), and there were times when I could swear Timothy Hutton was trying to remember his lines.

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Q & A
Excellent performances by the three leading actors two of them with well defined roles, the third one, Nolte, at the line between bad and good with a clear definition of values at the end.