This film is about the adventures of a 1940’s special anti-gangster police squad in Los Angeles, the infamous ‘Hat Squad.’ The four members of this squad are big, tough, no-nonsense cops who don’t hesitate to break the law, if it suits their purposes. When a local woman is murdered, their investigation turns up the fact that she had been romantically linked to several prominent men and had secret films taken of her liaisons. Since one of those men is the powerful U.S. Army General at the head of the then-new Atomic Energy Commission and another is the (married) leader of the Hat Squad, complications ensue. The FBI even gets involved in an attempted cover-up.
Release Date: 26 April 1996Runtime: 107 min
Stars:
- Andrew McCarthy
- Chazz Palminteri
- Chelsea Harrington
- Chris Penn
- Daniel Baldwin
- Ed Lauter
- Jennifer Connelly
- John Malkovich
- Johnna Johnson
- Kyle Chandler
- Larry Garrison
- Melanie Griffith
- Michael Madsen
- Nick Nolte
- Treat Williams
Director: Lee Tamahori
