He's a cop who believes no one is above the law.
Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice—expert and thorough bone-crushing.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
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“Is Steven Seagal the best thing in Above the Law?”
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Mar 20257/10
**_The next generation in Eastwood cop thrillers_** An ex-CIA martial artist, is now a vice squad detective in Chicago (Steven Seagal) where he and his new partner (Pam Grier) investigate a drug ring, but are shocked when the drug lord (Tony Salvano) is let go by the Feds, which can be traced to his nemesis in the CIA (Henry Silva). "Above the Law” (1988) was Seagal’s cinematic debut. He claimed he picked the movie from a pile of scripts that Warner Brothers had lying around for Clint Eastwood. I bring that up because the film is basically the next generation in Eastwood’s detective thrillers, just mixed with the martial arts and general plot of “Code of Silence” from three years earlier. That one had the same director, as well as the same actor in the villain role, Silva. Sharon Stone is on hand as the protagonist’s wife and she looks great, but her role is decidedly peripheral since she was still fairly unknown when the film was shot in the spring/early summer of 1987. Grier has a much bigger part and she said this is one of her personal favorites in her oeuvre because she actually got to act. Seagal proved right out of the gate that he had the masculine screen presence to star i
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Cast
- Steven SeagalNico Toscani
- Pam GrierDelores 'Jacks' Jackson
- Henry SilvaKurt Zagon
- Sharon StoneSara Toscani
- Ron DeanDetective Lukich
- Daniel FaraldoTony Salvano
- Joe GrecoFather Joseph Gennaro
- Vince ViveritoGiuseppe
- Chelcie RossNelson Fox
- Jack WallaceUncle Branca
Crew
- Andrew DavisDirector
- Steven PressfieldScreenplay
- Ronald ShusettScreenplay
- Andrew DavisScreenplay
- Robert SteadmanDirector of Photography
- David Michael FrankOriginal Music Composer
- Michael BrownEditor
- Andrew DavisProducer
- Steven SeagalProducer
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