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Confidential Informant
Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
During a crack epidemic two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to come under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who favor grim police thrillers about compromised loyalties, escalating cover-ups, and pressure-cooker investigations.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, dread
- Payoff
- unease, adrenaline
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- moral compromise, corruption, desperation, institutional scrutiny, loyalty
- Setting
- late twentieth-century urban crisis, crime-ridden city streets and police institutions
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