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- "One Tough Cop" is adapted from an autobiographical novel by Bo Dietl, a highly decorated New York City police detective who fancied himself a kind of Dirty Harry in the 1980s and was eventually punished for bending the rules by being exiled from Manhattan to a remote section of Brooklyn.
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One Tough Cop. One Tough Cop is a 1998 American action crime film. It was directed by Bruno Barreto and written by Jeremy Iacone. The movie stars Stephen Baldwin as the protagonist and first-person narrator Bo Dietl, a real-life New York City detective who wrote the book that the film is based on.
The 1981 rape and mutilation of a Catholic nun sent shock waves across the country. And it angered street cop Bo Dietl, so he did something about it -- he solved the crime. Dietl, who is the...
One Tough Cop. : "This is the true story of the maverick cop who made the busts, the headlines, and the controversies. Now Bo Dietl tells what it's really like inside the raw and...
- Bo Dietl, Ken Gross
- Simon and Schuster, 1998
- Nicholas Pileggi
- One Tough Cop: The Bo Dietl Story
One Tough Cop: Directed by Bruno Barreto. With Stephen Baldwin, Chris Penn, Gina Gershon, Michael McGlone. A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.
- (1.3K)
- Action, Crime
- Bruno Barreto
- 1998-10-09
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Oct 9, 1998 · For harshly realistic police drama, the film to beat this week is "One Tough Cop." Based on the autobiography of former New York police detective Bo Dietl, it plays a rough game, but with...
Oct 13, 1998 · In Bruno Barreto’s unintentionally cartoonish One Tough Cop, Amy Irving plays a prim federal agent out to blackmail Bo Dietl (Stephen Baldwin), made out to be the one honest policeman left in New...