Deep Cover is a 1992 crime thriller film starring Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum and directed by veteran actor Bill Duke. It is also notable for its theme song of the same name, composed by Dr. Dre and the then-newcomer Snoop Doggy Dogg. Cincinnati Police Officer Russell Stevens is recruited by DEA Special Agent Gerald Carver to go undercover on a major sting operation in Los Angeles. Stevens poses as drug dealer "John Hull" in order to infiltrate and work his way up the network of the west coast's largest drug importer, Anton Gallegos . Stevens relocates to a cheap hotel in Los... Angeles and begins buying and selling cocaine in order to establish himself as a street dealer. He meets crack cocaine addict Belinda Chacón , a struggling single-mother who tries to sell her son James to Stevens for money to buy drugs. Stevens is arrested by L.A.P.D. Narcotics Detective Taft and his corrupt partner Hernández when he buys a kilogram in a set up by Gallegos' low-level street supplier Eddie Dudley .
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| Release date: | 1992 |
| Directed by: | Bill Duke |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 107 Minutes |
| Cinematography: | Bojan Bazelli |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |