The mean streets of Los Angeles get meaner after detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is set up for the murder of his ex-partner, who was working with Internal Affairs. Colleagues close ranks around Ludlow, but he ignores his Captain's advice to lay low and blunders into a swamp of corruption and unbridled ambition. A cynical, violent story of dirty cops and ice-cold killers penned by hardboiled novelist James Ellroy. Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Cedric the Entertainer.