I number 1 watch Keitel's unnamed character advising his deuce sons within training guide back to their mother, which serves as the adumbration of his behavior through the rest of the film, in which he will require the twisted delight in humiliating women, virtually all notoriously in the scene where he blocks a few nonaged girls while forgoing a driver's licence & demands sexual favours in exchange for allowing the two remove.

A "Bad Lieutenant" as well occurs as drug-applying gambler world health organization finds himself plunged into debt once a New York Mets lose the World Series. A turning point in a film arrives after he investigates the rape of a Nun & uses this as a risk to look at his inner demons and mayhap achieve redemption.

Cast
Harvey Keitel .... A Lieutenant Brian McElroy .... Lieutenant's boy (#1) Frankie Acciarito .... Lieutenant's boy (#2) Peggy Gormley .... Lieutenant's wife Stella Keitel .... Lieutenant's daughter Dana Dee .... Lieutenant's toddler girl Victor Argo .... Beat cop Paul Calderon .... Cop #1 (when Paul Calderone) Leonard L. Thomas .... Cop #2 Anthony Ruggiero .... Lite Vincent Laresca .... JC Robin Burrows .... Ariane Victoria Bastel .... Bowtay G. Elvis Phillips .... Young cop Stephen Chen .... Korean store owner