Cop Land
Short description
Cop Land takes place in Garrison, New Jersey, a small town across the Hudson from New York whose residents are mostly city police officers and their families. Among them lives Sheriff Freddy Heflin, a partially deaf man who long admired the officers around him and never qualified to join their ranks. His view of the town and its inhabitants changes when an investigation by an internal affairs officer, Lieutenant Moe Tilden, reaches Garrison. Freddy is drawn into helping, and what he learns forces him to weigh his loyalty to the people he looked up to against his duty as sheriff. James Mangold wrote and directed the film, his second feature in a directing career of thirteen films, following Heavy and preceding Girl, Interrupted. It stars Sylvester Stallone as Freddy, with Harvey Keitel as Ray Donlan, Ray Liotta as Gary Figgis, Robert De Niro as Moe Tilden, Peter Berg and Janeane Garofalo. The production, made for about 15 million dollars, returned roughly 64 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds a 7 out of 10 from 115,000 votes, and on TMDB a 6.8 from 1,872 votes. A critics' rating of 6.8 from 68 reviews places it in similar territory to those audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Sylvester Stallone gained 40 pounds specifically for this film, increasing his waist size from 31 to 39 inches. During the weight gain process, he developed sciatica, palpitations, bile reflux, digestive problems, and headaches.
- Miramax had high hopes for this film, as did actor Sylvester Stallone, who dreamed of ending a slump in his career. Critics' reviews were generally positive, but box office receipts were not particularly impressive; according to Stallone, he found working on the film interesting and enjoyable, but it did nothing to help his career (rather the opposite).
- The credits state that the events shown in the film are a work of fiction, but director James Mangold himself grew up in a small town in New York State, which was home to many families of police officers. In one interview, Mangold mentioned that the plot was based on his own memories of growing up among the children of police officers.
- The film was originally intended to be shown at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, but reshoots of many scenes were required, and these reshoots took place in May (the month when the film festival is traditionally held), so the idea of showing the film in Cannes had to be abandoned.
- At the end of the film, when the characters played by Sylvester Stallone and Ray Liotta escort Michael Rapaport's character to hand him over to the authorities, a character played by Robert De Niro appears leaving a building with a longer mustache than usual. This was the result of a reshoot, as De Niro was already filming with Quentin Tarantino on the thriller 'Jackie Brown' (1977), where his character wore a long mustache.
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