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Actors: Chris Noth, Colm Meaney, Robert Patrick, Mercedes Ruehl
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Bad Apple (TV)
Chris Noth stars as Mike, an undercover FBI agent trying to infiltrate the mob. He falls in love with his informant's sister, Lorraine (Ruehl), and finds himself pursued by the vicious Tommy Bells (Patrick), a mafia hitman also in love with Lorraine. Bells also has a fondness for disposing of bodies with a chainsaw. It's up to Mike's partner, Agent Gibbons (Meaney) to try and figure out who betrayed them and find a way to rescue Mike.
--Alex Emborsky, Resident Scholar


Analysis of Bad Apple (TV)
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%



Time/Era of Movie: - 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story? Yes
Crime story: - hunted by killer/stalker
Blackmail & Seduction Yes
Criminal enemy is... - Mafia conflict

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age: - 20's-30's
Hair color? - brunette (Black)
Hair style - short/standard straight (man)
Body type - muscular (man)
Unclothed? - Chest
Events of movie makes character more... - cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type - ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed? - very tight clothes
How much in movie? - 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - criminal
Eccentric: Yes - emotionally unstable - obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 60%
Hair color - blonde
Hair type - (man) very short/crewcut
Body type - muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant

Setting
City? Yes
City: - New York - Dirty, grimy (like New York) - dangerous

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel... - excited
How many deaths in film? - 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing - touching of personal anatomy - actual description of sex - sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets? - 4 (a fair amount)
Kind of violence: - hand to hand - guns - knives
Unusual forms of death - crushed - perforation--bullets
Any profanity? - Some foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Classic/oldies rock
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