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Summary

In streets burning with hatred, corruption and violence, there walks a powder keg with a short fuse called Brennan (Nick Nolte).
When Brennan shoots a small-time crook in cold blood, he covers up the shooting as self-defence and Assistant DA Reilly (Timothy Hutton) is assigned to the investigation. Brennan's innocence rests on a clean sheet but innocence is hard to prove when key witnesses become murder Q&A victims.
Someone is trying to cover for Brennan and may succeed, unless one surviving witness takes the stand: gangster, drug-runner and racketeer Bobby Texador (Armand Assante).
Texador, Brennan and Reilly are as far apart as you can get when it comes to ideals - but when it comes to murder, invisible threads are drawing them together, tightening a noose around somebody's neck but whose?

Credits

Nick Nolte	...
Timothy Hutton	...
Armand Assante	...
Patrick O'Neal	...
Lee Richardson	...
Luis Guzman	...
Charles Dutton	...
Jenny Lumet	...
Paul Calderon	...