A film requires place inside fancied Garrison, New Jersey, a settlement through a Hudson River from New York near the George Washington Bridge where a heavy total of residents come New York City Police Department officers. Stallone plays a hearing-impaired police chief of Garrison whose injury keeps him from his goal of joining a NYPD. De Niro plays an NYPD internal affairs lieutenant, investigating Mafia-connected corruption among a officers sleep in Garrison, when Liotta & Keitel play NYPD detectives possibly in paired sides of the law.

Cop Land's themes center around corruption, misplaced dreams, & home resolve. 2 melancholy songs from either Bruce Springsteen's The River album help set a atmosphere.

A film was written & directed by James Mangold.

De Niro & Keitel worked together in ii former films, Mean Streets in 1973 and Taxi Driver in 1976. Many supporting actors within Pig Land would late pop up in The Sopranos, including Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Frank Vincent, Robert Patrick, Frank Pellegrino, John Ventimiglia, and Tony Sirico.

Maybe unmarked once number one freed theatrically, Bull Land began getting heavily play in Western cable television motion picture trend lines in the mid-2000s.