Press release
Millenium Entertainment presents
Rampart
Opens FEBRUARY 10, 2012
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 Woody Harrelson as 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.
In the late 1990s, Brown is a Vietnam vet and precinct cop working in Los Angeles’ notorious Rampart division.He sees himself as dedicated to “doing the people’s dirty work” . . . even if that means purposely crossing the line between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind . . . and even if it means obstinately following his own amoral code of “street justice.”
But when Dave gets caught on tape crossing the line, suddenly all the things he has ever done and the man he has become come back to haunt him, as the reality that he cannot change, or won’t change, unravels his fate.
Director Oren Moverman (The Messenger), who co-wrote the screenplay with celebrated crime novelist James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential), probes inside Brown’s raw fear, anguish and paranoia as the noose tightens and the ramifications spread through
his relationships with two ex-wives who happen to be sisters, with his disconnected young daughters, with an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, and a parade of police investigators and random women.
Stripped of all his former pretense -- of the machismo, arrogance, prejudice, sexuality, aggression and misanthropy that he has let define him – Dave Brown is left with nothing but the most unsettling question of all: is there anything left to redeem him as a
man?
Woody Harrelson stars in the drama Rampart, directed by Oren Moverman from a screenplay by James Ellroy and Moverman.Also starring Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Ice Cube, Ben Foster, Brie Larson, Ned Beatty, Steve Buscemi, Cynthia Nixon and Anne Heche, the film is produced by Lawrence Inglee, Clark Peterson, Ben Foster and Ken Kao.Michael DeFranco serves as executive producer.
Shooting on location on the streets of L.A., Moverman’s artistic team includes director of photography Bobby Bukowksi (The Messenger), production designer David Wasco
(Inglorious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tennanbaums), editor Jay Rabinowitz (Requiem For a Dream. Tree of Life) and costume designer Catherine George (The Messenger, We Need To Talk About Kevin.)
Directed by: Oren Moverman
Featuring: Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Ice Cube, Ned
Beatty, Cynthia Nixon, Anne Heche, and Brie Larson
Distributor: Millenium Entertainment
Running time: 112 minutes
MOVIE website-http://rampartmovie.com/
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Millenium Entertainment presents
Rampart
Opens FEBRUARY 10, 2012
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 Woody Harrelson as 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.
In the late 1990s, Brown is a Vietnam vet and precinct cop working in Los Angeles’ notorious Rampart division.He sees himself as dedicated to “doing the people’s dirty work” . . . even if that means purposely crossing the line between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind . . . and even if it means obstinately following his own amoral code of “street justice.”
But when Dave gets caught on tape crossing the line, suddenly all the things he has ever done and the man he has become come back to haunt him, as the reality that he cannot change, or won’t change, unravels his fate.
Director Oren Moverman (The Messenger), who co-wrote the screenplay with celebrated crime novelist James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential), probes inside Brown’s raw fear, anguish and paranoia as the noose tightens and the ramifications spread through
his relationships with two ex-wives who happen to be sisters, with his disconnected young daughters, with an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, and a parade of police investigators and random women.
Stripped of all his former pretense -- of the machismo, arrogance, prejudice, sexuality, aggression and misanthropy that he has let define him – Dave Brown is left with nothing but the most unsettling question of all: is there anything left to redeem him as a
man?
Woody Harrelson stars in the drama Rampart, directed by Oren Moverman from a screenplay by James Ellroy and Moverman.Also starring Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Ice Cube, Ben Foster, Brie Larson, Ned Beatty, Steve Buscemi, Cynthia Nixon and Anne Heche, the film is produced by Lawrence Inglee, Clark Peterson, Ben Foster and Ken Kao.Michael DeFranco serves as executive producer.
Shooting on location on the streets of L.A., Moverman’s artistic team includes director of photography Bobby Bukowksi (The Messenger), production designer David Wasco
(Inglorious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tennanbaums), editor Jay Rabinowitz (Requiem For a Dream. Tree of Life) and costume designer Catherine George (The Messenger, We Need To Talk About Kevin.)
Directed by: Oren Moverman
Featuring: Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Ice Cube, Ned
Beatty, Cynthia Nixon, Anne Heche, and Brie Larson
Distributor: Millenium Entertainment
Running time: 112 minutes
MOVIE website-http://rampartmovie.com/
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