Mulholland Falls
The Television & Movie Wiki: for TV, celebrities, and movies.
Image:Mulholland Falls.jpg Mulholland Falls is a 1996 film directed by Lee Tamahori. Nick Nolte plays Max Hoover, the head of an elite group of four Los Angeles cops (based on the real life "Hat Squad") who stop at nothing to maintain control of their jurisdiction.
Most critics panned the film. The look of the film was praised, including the work of cinematographer Haskell Wexler, but the film was criticized for the misuse of a talent cast and a confusing plot.
Peter Stack writing for the San Francisco Chronicle notes:
Mulholland Falls falls flat a lot. The best of the old noir detective dramas had lively pacing and crisp tough-guy dialogue. This movie seems at times like an exercise in slow motion and in dull, cumbersome writing (the script is by Pete Dexter, who wrote the Rush screenplay).
The film was shot on location in Los Angeles, California and Wendover, Utah.
Cast
- Nick Nolte as Max Hoover
- Melanie Griffith as Katherine Hoover
- Chazz Palminteri as Elleroy Coolidge
- Michael Madsen as Eddie Hall
- Chris Penn as Arthur Relyea
- Treat Williams as Colonel Nathan Fitzgerald
- Jennifer Connelly as Allison Pond
- Daniel Baldwin as McCafferty
- Andrew McCarthy as Jimmy Fields
- John Malkovich as General Thomas Timms
In addition, there are cameo appearances from actors Bruce Dern, William L. Petersen and Rob Lowe.
