Deep Cover with Laurence Fishburne: DVD Cover

    Deep Cover Director: Bill Duke Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard, Charles Martin Smith

    DVD - Wide Screen / Pan & Scan / Dolby 5.1 / Surround Sound Learn more

    BUY THIS ITEM

    • $14.99 Online price
      $13.49 Member price
      Join Now
      • skip to cart
    • Add To List uiAction=GetAllLists&page=List&pageType=list&ean=794043478024&productCode=DV&maxCount=100&threshold=3

    GET FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OF $25 OR MORE

    DELIVERY & GIFT DETAILS:

    Usually ships within 24 hours

    Delivery Time and Shipping Rates

    Eligible for gift wrap & gift message.

    • DVD Release Date: 09/14/1999
    • Original Release: 1992
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 30,444

    Viewer Rating: (2 ratings)

    See All Detailed Ratings

     
    • Overview
    • Editorial Reviews
    • Scenes
    • Customer Reviews
    • Cast & Crew
    • Full Product Details

    Features

    Widescreen and full-screen versions of the film; Original theatrical trailer; Cast and crew biographies and filmographies

    Full Product Details

    Scene Index

    Scene Selections
    0. Scene Selections
    0. Menu Group #1 with 18 chapter(s) covering 01:47:39
    1. Main Title: Cleveland, 1972. [4:40]
    2. Cincinnati: 20 Years Later. [3:02]
    3. Los Angeles: 2 Weeks Later. [8:00]
    4. Set Up. [6:26]
    5. Busted. [4:53]
    6. Gaining Respect. [7:25]
    7. Illegal Dealings. [6:24]
    8. The Wild, Wild West. [9:21]
    9. Climbing the Ladder. [4:25]
    10. A Rift is Created. [5:15]
    11. Felix the Rat. [7:35]
    12. New Responsibilities. [4:32]
    13. A Change of Plans. [6:45]
    14. Payback with Interest. [8:16]
    15. Diplomatic Immunity. [10:58]
    16. Credit Where Credit is Due. [5:25]
    17. End Credits. [4:08]

    Scene Index

    Editorial Reviews

    Laurence Fishburne plays no-nonsense LAPD narc Russell Stevens, Jr., who has worked all his life to expunge the memory of his dope-addict father, whom he saw die in a liquor-store robbery. DEA agent Jerry Carver (Charles Martin Smith) orders Stevens to work as an undercover operative on a major case. The cop is to pose as a dealer in order to get the goods on South American drug lord. Stevens is so convincing as a dealer, that he fast works his way up through the ranks and gains the trust of lawyer and narcotics dealer David Jason (Jeff Goldblum) and his sinister associates, all lackeys to the kingpin who is the target of Stevens' assignment. Through a series of fantastic but credible circumstances, Stevens eliminates the lower echelon, getting closer to his quarry, but in the process he finds himself so deep into the sinister and seductive world of the drug trade that he may never get out. In a surprise move, and just when he is about to bring the ringleader down, the DEA pulls the plug on his assignment, because the top dealer, an influential Latin American politician, may someday be useful to the State Department. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

    Customer Reviews

    • Viewer Rating:
    • Ratings: 2Reviews: 2

    Deep Coverby Anonymous

    Reader Rating:
    See Detailed Ratings

    June 14, 2007: If you want to understand how crack got started in the US, this is a good primer. Coming out of LA and the Bay Area, it became the country's recreational pandemic virus like non- other for the working masses. Laurence Fishburne, dutifully acting the role of the "player" drug dealer-under cover cop, knew all the right moves and the right people and the right chemicals that were going to be profitable. Disturbing as well because of prophetic commentary on globalized drug usage and "the streets just get worser."

    Deep Coverby Anonymous

    Reader Rating:
    See Detailed Ratings

    May 24, 2003: narrates John Q. Hull, crack dealer supreme played with realistic fervor by Laurence Fishburne, 2 years before his Oscar nominated turn as Ike Turner (WHATS LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT). His work here is just as Academy worthy. This is keen, well told street theatre. There is great support from Gregory Sierra, Charles Martin Smith and Jeff Goldblum, in his most evil role since DEATH WISH. Highly intense.