Scene: Ed Harris meets in a restaurant with some Italian mobsters, while an edgy Gary Oldman and Sean Penn wait for his phone call.
"The whole fuckin' neighborhood better get ready to duck."
An incredibly tense scene from a great movie and one of my all time favorites.
This directorial effort from Phil Joanou stars Sean Penn as an Irish-American undercover cop working the Hell's Ki More..tchen beat. Penn is ostensibly on a sentimental journey to his old neighborhood. Actually he's been assigned to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Ed Harris, the brother of Sean's best friend Gary Oldman. Penn suffers the requisite honor vs. duty anguish when he renews his childhood romance with Harris' sister Robin Wright. State of Grace would have had more clout had it been more clear as to time and place: it's supposedly set in the 1990s, but the attitudes and behavior are pure 1970s.
Sean Penn ... Terry Noonan
Ed Harris ... Frankie Flannery
Gary Oldman ... Jackie Flannery
Robin Wright Penn ... Kathleen Flannery (as Robin Wright)
John Turturro ... Nick
Burgess Meredith ... Finn
R.D. Call ... Pat Nicholson, Frankie's Lieutenant
Joe Viterelli ... Borelli
John C. Reilly ... Stevie McGuire
Deirdre O'Connell ... Irene
Marco St. John ... Jimmy Cavello
Thomas G. Waites ... Frankie's Man
Brian Burke ... Fran
They've been playing this on the movie channel just seen it the other night.