Starring a young Al Pacino in a ferocious and career changing performance, Sidney Lumet’s cop corruption thriller / New Hollywood masterpiece screens at BFI Southbank in a new 4K restoration from 18 August.
Sidney Lumet’s classic police procedural features Al Pacino as an honest cop trying to make a difference in the midst of corruption within the NYPD. Frank Serpico (Pacino), a straightforward, no-nonsense career cop, struggles to deliver clean, community policing in New York. The widespread and systematic corruption throughout the NYPD finds him wrestling with his conscience; does he keep quiet and accept the situation, or turn ’whistleblower’ and place his life in danger from the very people he works with?
Al Pacino delivers a powerful performance in this compelling biopic of a cop and a city’s police force”Empire Magazine
For your chance to win a quad poster courtesy of @ParkCircusFilms, simply email filmcompetitions@bfi.org.uk with Serpico in the subject header before 14 August.
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