Crown Vic is a 2019 American crime thriller film written and directed by Joel Souza, with Alec Baldwin having served as one of the producers, and stars Thomas Jane, Luke Kleintank, Gregg Bello, David Krumholtz, Bridget Moynahan, Scottie Thompson, and Josh Hopkins. The film focuses on the events during a night shift for veteran LAPD officer Ray Mandel and his trainee Nick Holland. The film s title derives from the Ford Crown Victoria, a car widely used by police, which the main characters also use. It premiered on April 26, 2019, in the Tribeca Film Festival, and was released to theatres and on-demand on November 8, 2019 in the United States. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who noted similarities with the 2001 film Training Day.

Premise

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Nick Holland is a newly minted officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. In his first night shift, he is assigned to patrol the city with experienced policeman Ray Mandel. Ray and Nick are completely different personalities; while Nick is a down-to-earth, self-proclaimed world improver, Ray is a divorced pessimist with a penchant for breaking the rules and resorting to violence. In their shift, they are responsible for all kinds of incidents, from robberies to domestic unrest to car fires. They also try to find a girl who has been kidnapped by a group of drug traffickers, and at the same time, they chase two terroristic bank robbers wanted for murdering policemen.

Cast

• Thomas Jane as Ray Mandel
• Luke Kleintank as Nick Holland
• Gregg Bello
• David Krumholtz as Stroke Adams
• Bridget Moynahan as Tracy Peters
• Scottie Thompson as Claire
• Josh Hopkins as Jack VanZandt
• Devon Werkheiser as Floyd Stiles
• Emma Ishta as Ally

Production

Despite being set in Los Angeles, the movie was filmed in Buffalo, New York.

Release

The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2019. It was released in theaters on November 8, 2019, and on VOD by Screen Media on January 7, 2020.

Reception

Box office

Crown Vic grossed $3,868 in one opening theatre in North America against a production budget of $3.6 million.

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 58% based on 26 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The website s critics consensus reads, Led by a solid turn from the well-cast Thomas Jane, Crown Vic gets an impressive amount of mileage out of its familiar cop thriller framework. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 47 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews .

Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com awarded the film 1.5 stars out of four, commenting, Aside from a rock-solid performance by Thomas Jane as the grizzled cop, Crown Vic, which is named after the Ford model car that is the default of the LAPD black-and-white, has very little to offer the discriminating moviegoer. Movie Nation s Roger Moore gave the film two stars out of four, stating Crown Vic is a grounded and gritty cops-on-the-night-shift melodrama built around a tightly coiled turn by Thomas Jane… Crown Vic isn’t a bad picture. It’s just too unexceptional to stand out. Rex Reed of Observer Media gave the film two stars out of four and said, I never cease to wonder how some films manage to borrow, imitate, copy, or steal from older films without acknowledging or crediting the originals. A predictable, ho-hum police procedural called Crown Vic, about one night of violence and death with a veteran Los Angeles cop assigned to escort a rookie cop through the criminal underground while teaching him the ropes, is so close to the 2001 Training Day that it’s practically a remake.

Dennis Harvey of Variety noted, That’s a lot of narrative content, and Crown Vic varies in involvement and credibility as it juggles the more melodramatic aspects with the quasi-vérité ones. Still, it all works more often than not, thanks to the able lead performances and Souza’s generally smooth handling. Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter stated, The filmmaker displays a genuine flair for staging exciting action sequences, and the ever-reliable Jane delivers a solid lead performance, here tempering his natural machismo with a sympathetic, mournful quality. But there s just too much about Crown Vic that we haven t seen a thousand times before, to more impactful effect.

Year	2019
ReleaseDate	2019-12-15
RuntimeMins	110
RuntimeStr	1h 50min
Plot	Follows one memorable night in the life of LAPD officer Ray Mandel while hunting two cop killers on the loose.
Directors	Joel Souza
Writers	Joel Souza
Stars	Thomas Jane, Luke Kleintank, Josh Hopkins
Produced by	Alec Baldwin,Christopher Barish,Gregg Bello,Claudine De Niro,Matthew Helderman,Alyson Latz,Anjul Nigam,Joelle Scott,Steve Straka,Luke Taylor,Peter Toumbekis,Maxx Tsai,Jim Valdez,Alexis Zoullas
Music by	Jeffery Alan Jones
Cinematography by	Thomas Scott Stanton
Film Editing by	David Andalman
Casting By	Avy Kaufman
Production Design by	Debbie DeVilla
Art Direction by	Max Wixom
Set Decoration by	Frank Coppola
Costume Design by	Carisa Kelly
Makeup Department	Joseph Farulla,Scott Hersh,Renee Proulx,Leah Raybuck,Eric s Wilson
Production Management	David Andalman,Bethany Hedges,Prudence Kao,Luke Ramsey
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Michael S. Chandler,Brendan Donohue,Meredith King,Forrest Viola
Art Department	Diane Almeter Jones,Dan Barone,Lincoln Coppola,Courtlan Green,James p Kerr,Tyler Kirchmeyer,Anna Krempholtz,Cameron L. Martinez Jr.,Emily Powrie,Joel Resnikoff,Tom j Rukavina,Stephen W Sheehy,Todd Warfield,Glenn Williams Jr.,Peter S. Wilson
Sound Department	Alan Archer,Eloisa Diaz,Peter Diaz,Robert Hunt,Bobby Johanson,Jeffery Alan Jones,Susan Kurtz,Michael Rivera,Tricia Schultz,Keenan Wyatt
Special Effects by	Drew Jiritano,Andrew Mortelliti,Joseph Mortelliti
Visual Effects by	Edward Irastorza,Jason Maynard,Jenny McShane,Kevin Quattro,Eddie Robison
Stunts	Luciano Acuna Jr.,Mohammed J. Ali,Michael C. Brennan,Nicole Callender,Becca GT,Jason Charles Hill,Rawn Hutchinson,Zoltán Hódi,Cal Johnson,Josiah Nolan,James Northrup,Nnamdi Nwosa,Faron Salisbury,Danny Schoch,Amy Lynn Tuttle,Aaron Vexler,Caroline Vexler
Camera and Electrical Department	Trevor Boyd,Byron Brown II,Francis Andrew Butler,Travis Cannan,Phillip V. Caruso,Kash Costner,Ed Lawton,Macro Malo,Joe Marine,Michael Monar,Michael Nelson,Anthony Pacella,James A. Peppe,Matthew Quinn,Chris Rados,Oliver Rush,Kevin Salonek,Zack Shultz,Thomas Scott Stanton,Chaz Strothers,Michael Thompson,Glenn Williams Jr.
Casting Department	Julianna Austin,Anna Gallio,Patricia Gallio,Paulette D. Harris,Dana Lockhart,Sydney Lockhart,Johanna Tacadena
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Angela Barrow,Celeste Montalvo,Carla Van Wart
Editorial Department	Zachary Medow
Location Management	Heath Cottengim,Dave Flanagan,Matt Fleck,Hannah Leilani Jordan,Avonlea Matheny,Keanna McLaughlin,Melanie Morse
Music Department	Barbara Jean Barrielle,Sam Fein,Brian Litwin,Steven A. Saltzman
Script and Continuity Department	Aidan Payne
Transportation Department	Rich Christie
Additional Crew	Craig Acton Jr.,Elliott Adkins,Alec Biello,Mark Bogumil,Margaret Bohan,Briana Carrington,Andrew Dale,Mike Devine,Stephen R Foreht,Leah Glendenning,Kunzang Gyatso,Susan Haley,Hannah Leilani Jordan,Haley Kenyon,Robin Lazzara,Ian Loretto,Julien Louis,Laura Macara,Ryan Machlowski,Mary Martin,Rafael Mencia,Yocasta Mencia,Salvatore Natale,Amy M Phillips,Holly Pilato-Scharnweber,Sheena Ross,Scott Schaffer,Elliot Spitzer,Jonette Taber,Forrest Viola,Ryan Washburn,Leeba Zakharov
Thanks	Kelly Jean Badgley,Tim Clark,Jarred Kjack,Jason Linere-White,Angela Quintana,Jade Sealey,Amy Ulrich,Michael Woodley
Genres	Action, Adventure, Crime
Companies	Brittany House Pictures, BondIt Media Capital, Crown Vic Productions
Countries	USA
Languages	English
ContentRating	R
ImDbRating	6.4
ImDbRatingVotes	7378
MetacriticRating	47
Keywords	male rear nudity,outdoor nudity,covered penis,pubic hair,male pubic hair