Rampart

At the heart of Oren Moverman's Rampart is a riveting parable about what happens to a man who refuses to change, even when change is the only thing that can save him. That man is Dave Brown, played by two-time Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson. Though the film is set in the 1990s, when scandal rocked the LAPD's Rampart division, the film hones in on a single fictional cop: Dave Brown, a man who has taken the no guts, no glory American mythos to heart, without questioning what it is doing to him and those he holds dear. He is a cop whose personal life is propelled into a dizzying downward spiral when he comes under suspicion for roughing up a suspect. More than just a police officer who plays things fast and loose, Brown exposes the inner workings of a certain type of personality everyone recognizes around them, a personality very much part of American culture, yet not often examined. He is the kind of man inexorably drawn to authority and power, yet seems destined to abuse it; a man who has dreams of being a great masculine hero, yet is beholden to women; who has undeniable charm, yet whose stubborn refusal to take responsibility for his actions becomes a destructive force against family, community and ultimately himself.

Director: Oren Moverman
Producer: Ben Foster
Producer: Clark Peterson
Producer: Ken Kao
Producer: Lawrence Inglee
Actor: Robin Wright
Actor: Woody Harrelson
Actor: Sigourney Weaver
Actor: Ben Foster
Actor: Robin Wright Penn
Actor: Ned Beatty
Actor: Steve Buscemi
Actor: Harriet Sansom Harris
Actor: Billy Hough
Actor: Deadlee
Actor: Dominic Flores
Actor: Jon Bernthal
Actor: Jon Foster
Actor: Matt McTighe
Actor: Ruben Garfias
Actor: Samantha Boyarsky
Actor: Stella Schnabel
Actor: Ice Cube
Actor: Anne Heche
Actor: Cynthia Nixon
Actor: Audra McDonald
Actor: Brie Larson