Mulholland Falls

Mulholland Falls is a 1996 American neonoir crime thriller film directed by Lee Tamahori and written by Pete Dexter. It stars Nick Nolte, Jennifer Connelly, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Melanie Griffith, Andrew McCarthy, Treat Williams, and John Malkovich.

In the early 1950s, a fourman squad of unorthodox Los Angeles Police Department detectives begins throwing its weight around by tossing Jack Flynn William L. Petersen, an organized crime figure from Chicago, off a cliff on Mulholland Drive, nicknamed Mulholland Falls for all the men they have thrown off it.Detective Lieutenant Maxwell Hoover Nick Nolte and his partners Coolidge Chazz Palminteri, Hall Michael Madsen, and Relyea Chris Penn are called to investigate a suspicious death of a young woman found at a construction site. The evidence shows that every bone in her body is broken. A coroner deduces that she looks like she jumped off a cliff, although there are no cliffs nearby. The woman turns out to be someone Hoover knew very well, Allison Pond Jennifer Connelly. ........

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