Family of Cops

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Family of Cops
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Official release poster
Genre
  • Crime
  • Drama
Written byJoel Blasberg
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Starring Charles Bronson
Daniel Baldwin
Barbara Williams
Angela Featherstone
Sebastian Spence
Music byPeter Manning Robinson
Country of originUnited States
Canada
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producer Douglas S. Cramer
ProducerPeter Bray
Cinematography François Protat
EditorRon Wisman
Running time87 minutes
Production companiesThe Cramer Company
Joel Blasberg Company
Le Monde Entertainment
Alliance Communications
Original release
Network CBS
ReleaseNovember 26, 1995 (1995-11-26)
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Family of Cops is a 1995 American-Canadian made-for-television crime drama film from Trimark Pictures, directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Charles Bronson, Daniel Baldwin, Angela Featherstone, and Sebastian Spence. It was filmed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1]

Contents

This film is the first in a trilogy, and was followed by Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops 2 (1997) and Family of Cops 3 (1999).

Plot

Milwaukee Police Department inspector Paul Fein (Charles Bronson) is a veteran police commander whose eldest son Ben (Daniel Baldwin) is a senior police detective, whose older daughter Kate (Barbara Williams) is a public defender who takes her job very seriously, and whose younger son Eddie (Sebastian Spence) is also a cop assigned to the department's Patrol Bureau. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he soon learns that the field of suspects has been narrowed down to the victim's sexually freewheeling wife Anna (Lesley-Anne Down) and Paul's wild-child daughter Jackie (Angela Featherstone). Neither Paul, Ben, nor Eddie believe that Jackie could have committed the murder, and soon Paul is using himself as a decoy in a bid to find out more about what Anna does and does not know about her husband's death.

Cast

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Adam Sandler (November 21, 1995). "Review: 'A Family of Cops'". Variety . Retrieved 2016-02-23.