Training Day

Denzel Washington delivers an Academy Award-winning performance oppositeEthan Hawke in this gritty drama set in the morally ambiguous world ofundercover police work. Every day a war rages between drug dealers andcops on the streets of America's inner cities. With every war comecasualties, none greater than 13-year veteran Los Angeles narcoticsofficer Alonzo Harris (Washington), whose questionable methods blur theline between legal and corrupt. Today Alonzo gets a new partner,idealistic rookie Jake Hoyt (Hawke), and Jake has one day--and one dayonly--to prove his mettle to his fiercely charismatic superior. Over 24hours, Jake will be dragged into the ethical mire of Alonzo's logic asboth men risk their careers and their lives to serve conflicting notionsof justice.