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Rampart, Lightstream Pictures presents a Waypoint Entertainment Production in association with The Third Mind Pictures ; produced by Lawrence Inglee, Clark Peterson, Ben Foster, Ken Kao ; written by James Ellroy and Oren Moverman ; directed by Oren Moverman

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MPAA rating : R for pervasive language, sexual content and some violence

Rampart

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Lightstream Pictures presents a Waypoint Entertainment Production in association with The Third Mind Pictures ; produced by Lawrence Inglee, Clark Peterson, Ben Foster, Ken Kao ; written by James Ellroy and Oren Moverman ; directed by Oren Moverman

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Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world, complete with two ex-wives who are sisters, two daughters, an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, investigators galore, and a series of seemingly random women, starts making less and less sense ...

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