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RAMPART ...debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival, the movie's poster declares that Woody Harrelson is the "most corrupt cop ever seen on screen."

There's a terrific history of corrupt cops in cinema history. From Nicolas Cage's Terence McDonagh in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans to Denzel Washington's Alonzo Harris in Training Day, to Gary Oldman's Sansfield in Leon, the character type has been around forever and when done right, it can be amazing. Now enter Woody Harrelson's Dave Brown from the new Oren Moverman film Rampart.

Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown (two-time Academy Award(R) nominee Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world, complete with two ex-wives who are sisters, two daughters, an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, investigators galore, and a series of seemingly random women, starts making less and less sense. In the end, what is left is a human being stripped of all his pretense, machismo, chauvinism, arrogance, sexism, homophobia, racism, aggression, misanthropy; but is it enough to redeem him as a man?

Rampart is Oren Moverman's follow-up to the Oscar nominated The Messenger and features an all-star cast that includes Ben Foster, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, Ice Cube, Cynthia Nixon, Anne Heche and Brie Larson.

The film will have it's Oscar qualifying run in Los Angeles and New York starting next week and will be released nationwide in January.