Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans(2009)

movie - first aired/released 2009-09-11 - 122 min - audience 6.2

Drama, Crime

Directed by Werner Herzog

Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.