Shelter (1998)

The sad and scary reality of law enforcement is that the temptation to cross over to the lucrative activity of enabling crooks rather than curtailing them is ever-present and powerful. The conflicted hero of Shelter (1997) is a grunt level field officer in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) who’s caught between his notions of good and evil and a boss who has sold his soul to anarchy. The ATF man’s loyalties are tested, and ultimately shattered, when his partner is killed during a crooked deal gone bad. Disgusted and disillusioned, the reformed idealist hires on as bodyguard to the wife of the biggest gangster in the gun-running game. When the ex-cop and the current wife fall in love, a whole new alignment of loyalties is forged and tested.