After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father’s dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence’s job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse.

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)
  • Rating: (36,556 votes)
  • Tagline:The only criminal he can't catch is himself. »
  • Runtime:122 minutes
  • Director: Werner Herzog
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Terence McDonagh
    Nicolas Cage
    Frankie Donnenfield
    Eva Mendes
    Stevie Pruit
    Val Kilmer
    Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner)
    Xzibit
    Heidi
    Fairuza Balk
    Armand Benoit
    Shawn Hatosy
    Genevieve
    Jennifer Coolidge
    Pat McDonagh
    Tom Bower
    Captain James Brasser
    Vondie Curtis-Hall
    Ned Schoenholtz
    Brad Dourif
  • Genres:Crime, Drama
  • Producers:
    Stephen Belafonte
    producer  
    Melanie Brown
    co-producer  
    Nicolas Cage
    producer  
    Alessandro Camon
    executive producer  
    Boaz Davidson
    executive producer  
    Danny Dimbort
    executive producer  
    Randall Emmett
    producer  
    Avi Lerner
    executive producer  
    Diego J. Martinez
    executive producer  
    Alan Polsky
    producer  
    Gabe Polsky
    producer  
    Edward R. Pressman
    producer  
    Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt
    executive producer  
    Trevor Short
    executive producer  
    John Thompson
    producer  
  • Plots: After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
  • User's comment:a truly different film, vividly acted and directed by antoniotierno

    This movie is filled with humor and turns, it's jazzy and entertaining but not that similar to Abel Ferrara's 1992 story, in spite of the title. It features a wonderful and very much involved performance from Nicholas Cage, a lot of very black humor and gets to develop a strong pessimism. The story is appropriately set in New Orleans (during the Hurricane Katrina's aftermath) and mainly shows what occurs to good people when bad people prosper. Nicholas Cage aside, Val Kilmer doesn't probably manages to do much, but Mendes and Dourif deliver convincing performances. Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant" was a dirty depiction of a strongly damaged detective (played by Harvey Keitel), where, leaving from the illusions of a drug-induced cop, ended up involving a lot of Catholic guilt. Here there's more action and humor than that stuff, not that the movie is shallow but probably it's just a bit more unpretentious.


  • Quotes: Terence McDonagh: Shoot him again. Deshaun 'Midget' Hackett: What for? Terence McDonagh: His soul is still dancing.
  • Also known as: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Denmark - DVD title), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Sweden - imdb display title), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (USA - promotional title), Enemigo interno (Colombia - imdb display title), Enemigo interno (Mexico), Enemigo interno (Peru), Bad Lieutenant (Japan - English title), Bad Lieutenant (UK), Bad Lieutenant - Cop ohne Gewissen (Germany), Bad Lieutenant - Escale à la Nouvelle-Orléans (France), Diafthora sti Nea Orleani (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Halb politseinik - Tegevuspaik New Orleans (Estonia), Il cattivo tenente - Ultima chiamata New Orleans (Italy), Kötü Dedektif (Turkey - DVD title, Turkish title), Mocskos zsaru - New Orleans utcáin (Hungary - imdb display title), Paha poliisi - Määräsatama New Orleans (Finland), Polícia sem Lei (Portugal), Teniente corrupto (Spain), Un maldito policía en Nueva Orleans (Argentina), Vício Frenético (Brazil), Zli porucnik: Maticna stanica - New Orleans (Serbia - imdb display title), Zly porucznik (Poland - imdb display title), Zly porucznik. Miejsce akcji: Nowy Orlean (Poland - cable TV title),

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