L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001)

Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen round out the tough-guy cast in Ed Anders’s hard-nosed west coast cop drama L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001). Marc Singer stars as Sam Steele, an L.A.P.D. newbie who’s determined to rid the streets of armed thugs notorious for killing convenience-store clerks. Steele’s got added incentive to rub out the goons since his dad (Charles Durning) mans the counter at a local grocery. Unfortunately the job won’t be easy, as Steele suspects the thugs are getting help from the inside. Anders’s film is an armed-to-the-tooth study of police-force machismo, but that doesn’t mean there’s no place for the ladies. Kiara Hunter helps Singer cool off after a long day at work by taking him for a ride on her fold-out couch.