When a teenage boy stumbles on a Mafia execution in progress, he becomes the next murder victim in a gangland drug war that has the Feds up in arms. Richard Gere stars as the cool cop who heads the elite strike force created to crack the case and put the death dealers where they belong. But that's easier said than done as the mob takes on the Feds in a bloody battle for the streets of New York. America's hottest, most handsome leading man provides action, adventure, and intrigue in the gritty style of the Academy Award winner, "The French Connection."