Wuchak
A female deputy is hired by a corrupt sheriff in small town Washington
Released in 1997, this is about the best that can be done with a movie debuting on Lifetime and the limitations thereof (TV budget, formulaic parameters and so forth). It explores the power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely theme with the milieu of a police station in the rural Northwest.
Ive heard it criticized that the abuse by the sheriff (well played by Harry Hamlin) is too overt to be believable, but I found it convincing for a movie that condenses a month of events into a mere 1 hour, 28 minutes. See Deadfall (2012) for an example of the same thing done unconvincingly.
Another criticism is that all the males in the story are bad or, at ...