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Actors: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger Director: Curtis Hanson Rating: Features: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 138 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Release Date: April 21, 1998 Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1997 Studio: Warner Home Video
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Three police detectives each use their own approach to find the truth behind a group murder. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: R Release Date: 7-JUN-2005 Media Type: DVD
In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts police, political, press--and, of course, very personal in 1940s Hollywood. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz--a compelling blend of L.A. history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolor noir films, Chinatown. Kim Basinger richly deserved her Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a conflicted femme fatale; unfortunately, her male costars are so uniformly fine that they may have canceled each other out with the Academy voters: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, and James Cromwell play LAPD officers of varying stripes. Pearce's character is a particularly intriguing study in Hollywood amorality and ambition, a strait-laced "hero" and son of a departmental legend whose career goals outweigh all other moral, ethical, and legal considerations. If he's a good guy, it's only because he sees it as the quickest route to a promotion. --Jim Emerson
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