Nasty Boys

Nasty Boys (1989)

When a narcotics team sent to bust some drug dealers are massacred. The police department form a special unit of undercover cops whose identities are withheld from the brass, and are only accountable to the leader, a Lieutenant. While they try to bust the dealers, the Lieutenant tries to find out who gave the dealers the information about the bust. And he suspects that it's someone in the DEA.

Date of release
1989-09-22
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Crime, TV Movie
Director
Rick Rosenthal

Casting

Interesting facts

Nasty Boys is a 1989 American television pilot from NBC, about a North Las Vegas narcotic unit of six undercover police officers who fought crimes against drugs and illegal automatic weapons. It became a TV series in 1990.

Production

The Nasty Boys pilot was created by Dick Wolf (who would later create Law & Order) and David Black.

The Nasty Boys pilot partial cast list included Thomas Mikal Ford as the lead villain Payday, T. Rodgers as Busy Bee, and Nia Peeples as Serena, wife of Eduardo Cruz (Benjamin Bratt).

Three years after playing "Hollywood" Neven in the film Top Gun, actor Whip Hubley starred in the Nasty Boys pilot as Matt Morrissey, a dual lead with Jeff Kaake who played the character Matt's brother, Paul Morrissey.

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