Brooklyn’s Finest is a crime film starring Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle. It is directed by Antoine Fuqua, and written by Michael C. Martin, a one time subway flagger from East New York.
It was the first film to sell at the 2009 Sundance film festival for a sales price of “under 5 million dollars,” per Nicole Pederson, citing a report in Variety, to Senator Distribution. The film was filmed in 3 boroughs in New York City, Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, locations included Brownsville and the Van Dyke Houses. Martin was paid $200,000 for the script, the total budget was in the $25 million range, and many of the actors took large pay cuts to make the movie.
Plot: Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.
Cast
* Richard Gere as Eddie Dugan
* Ethan Hawke as Sal
* Don Cheadle as Tango
* Wesley Snipes as Caz
* Jesse Williams as Eddie Quinlan
* Ellen Barkin
* Lili Taylor as Angela
* Sheriff Jerry Speziale as Captain Sidney Geraci
