The Seven-Ups

Buddy Manucci is an NYPD investigator who runs a task force that targets criminals whose offenses will result in minimum sentences of seven years if convicted. Manucci's best informant, Vito Lucia, has double-crossed him by using his secret list of loan sharks to kidnap these men and hold them for ransom. When this plan results in the death of one of Manucci's men, he and his task force go to war with the city's criminal population, bending the law along the way to track down Lucia. (official distributor synopsis)