Deep Cover

About Deep Cover

Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.

Bill Duke's Deep Cover is a 1992 crime thriller film. Laurence Fishburne appears as Russell Stevens Jr., Jeff Goldblum as David Jason, Victoria Dillard as Betty McCutcheon, and Gregory Sierra as Felix Barbosa.

Released in April 1992, it runs 108 minutes. Written by Henry Bean and Michael Tolkin.

Shelv files it under undercover, drug trafficking, undercover cop, and drug trade. It streams on History Vault in the United States. It scores 6.8 out of 10 from 278 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Se7en, Memories of Murder, and Gone Baby Gone make useful companions to Deep Cover, all filed under investigation, murder, and neo-noir.