The Thin Blue Lie (2000)
In this city, cops are kings...and brutality reigns.
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 1H 37M
Director : Roger Young
Synopsis
Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick investigative reporter, Jonathan Neumann, has heard some troubling rumors: stories of innocent people victimized by a "goon squad" of law enforcement officers.
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