Prince of the City

Synopsis

A charismatic New York City narcotics detective who operates with unbridled autonomy in the elite Special Investigations Unit agrees to wear an undercover wire for federal prosecutors investigating systemic police corruption, on the strict condition that he will never have to betray his partners, spiraling into a harrowing, three-hour moral abyss as the federal net widens and his partner brotherhood crumbles to perjury and suicide. Sidney Lumet and Jay Presson Allen's Oscar-nominated epic crime masterpiece starring Treat Williams in a tour-de-force performance.