The Close-to-home shock when I first saw it
I first saw "Bad Lieutenant" a few years ago when the Independence Channel broadcast it.
An early scene shocked me: the exterior of the school where the Harvey Keitel character drops off his kids. The exterior is of St. Clare's of Assisi in the Morris Park of the Bronx, New York, where I went to elementary school. I couldn't believe it!
A later scene of the First Communion was filmed in St. Clare's Church. The priest isn't actor but Father Tom DeLucci. The director must have filmed during an actual First Communion service.