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Content Advisory: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity Movie Release: 1988 DVD Release: 01/28/1998 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 39 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Total Copies: 14 Genres: Action, Thriller, Action Thriller, Police Detective Film See Also: Above the Law [With BBQ Book], Above the Law, Above the Law [Blu-ray]

Martial arts hero Steven Seagal developed, co-wrote, co-produced, choreographed, and debuted in this thrill ride -- a cop film with more attitude, and more plot, than its star had duties on the set. Seagal is Nico Toscani, an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist, and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice: expert and thorough bone-crushing. When the FBI orders his squad to ignore the mysterious shipment of military explosives they seized from a notorious narcotics dealer, Nico defiantly pursues his own investigation. With the help of his partner Jax (Pam Grier), he sifts through a tangled web of Catholic priests, illegal immigrants, and trained assassins to uncover a drug cartel run directly out of the CIA by an official named Zagon Henry Silva. Nico remembers the man from his CIA days in Vietnam, when Zagon used the agency (and the war) as a front for smuggling opium. At the time, Nico was too outranked to thwart him, but he will no longer let Zagon abuse his position to remain immune from prosecution -- especially now that the official has plans to murder a U.S. senator. Zagon may be above the law of most men, but he is certainly not above Nico's. ~ Aubry Anne D'Arminio, All Movie Guide

Steven Seagal - Nico Toscani
Pam Grier - Delores Jackson
Henry Silva - Zagon
Ron Dean - Lukich
Daniel Faraldo - Salvano

Above the Law explodes onto single-layered DVD in two picture formats: widescreen anamorphic (1.85:1 aspect ratio) and standard full-screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio). The audio track options included are English (Dolby Digital 5.1) and Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0), with subtitles available in English, Spanish, and French. Closed captioning is also available. Special features include some production notes and the usual original theatrical trailers, but no behind-the-scenes "making of" documentary or featurette. Despite being remastered in Dolby 5.1, the sound quality is only fair, and seems to be mono throughout much of the film. ~ Craig Chalquist, All Movie Guide