Righteous Kill - September 2008

Righteous Kill - September 2008

Veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of a vigilante serial killer in the adrenaline fueled psychological thriller Righteous Kill, directed by Jon Avnet (Red Corner, Fried Green Tomatoes) and written by Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man). The cast also features hip-hop superstar Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson (Get Rich or Die Tryin').

After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before.

Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own -- take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?

Directed by Jon Avnet
Produced by Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Lati Grobman and Randall Emmett
Written by Russell Gewirtz
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller

Casts:

• Al Pacino as Rooster
• Robert De Niro as Turk
• Carla Gugino as Karen Kleisner
• Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Riley
• John Leguizamo as Detective Perez
• Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as Spider
• Brian Dennehy as Lieutenant Hingus
• Frank John Hughes as Randall
• Mark Famiglietti as Carl
• Michael Cruz as Frankie

Plot Summary: Longtime partners Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan investigate a series of vigilante killings in a gritty and sophisticated New York City crime thriller.
Two Veteran New York City Detectives hunt a vigilante who may be one of their own. Two cops (Robert Deniro, Al Pacino) find themselves in pursuit of a serial killer who writes poems about the crime he just committed, leaving them at the scene.