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True Crime

starring: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods, Denis Leary
directed by: Clint Eastwood

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790742267
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790742268
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 10, 1999
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 6663
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 19, 1999



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Product Description:
Steve everett is a faltering reporter recovering alcoholic and a womanizer. One editor wants him ousted: the other is the only one at the paper who still believes in him. When steve discovers that the key witness in the trial of a prisoner scheduled to die lied on the stand he only has 12 hours to prove his innocence. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/07/2004 Starring: Clint Eastwood Denis Leary Run time: 127 minutes Rating: R Director: Clint Eastwood

Amazon.com:
Not enough people went to see True Crime in theaters. Wasn't Clint Eastwood too old to be playing a guy whom a variety of glorious women, from the middle-aged Diane Venora and Laila Robins to the young Mary McCormack and Lucy Liu, find attractive? Could the onetime Man with No Name credibly play a brilliant crime reporter, Steve Everett, with an ironic turn of phrase and an incurable habit of screwing up both his personal and professional lives? The respective answers to those questions are: hell no and hell yes. True Crime features one of Eastwood's best and most entertaining performances--and his work as director is utterly assured.

The story (from Andrew Klavan's bestselling novel) gives Everett the last-minute assignment of interviewing a condemned man (Isaiah Washington) on the eve of his execution. The prisoner, a born-again Christian and exemplary family man, has everything the reporter lacks except a shot at seeing the next sunrise. Everett sets out to get him that, yet far from making a beeline to the exculpatory evidence that will save the life of his 'client,' this very tarnished hero has to spend a lot of the next 24 hours contending with the baggage he's accumulated through drinking, wenching, and familial neglect. (A Pirandellian note: Everett's daughter is played by Eastwood's own daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, and her mother, Frances Fisher, returns for a feisty cameo as a prosecutor.)

This is a good one that got away. Don't let it happen again. -- Richard T. Jameson



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - True Crime
I have never been a Clint Eastwood fan, neither disliking him or liking him, however, this movie was ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - True Crime
Fantastic. I just love all of Clint Eastwood's movies. This is a definite keeper. Would recommend purchasing ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Horrific
Ahhh.... just what the world needs: another mindless, pointlessly violent movie filled with gushing blood and ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Trite and cliché-ridden
After watching 36 minutes of this trite and cliché-ridden waste, I am bailing out on it. It has totally failed ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - True Crime
This movie has its good and bad points and in the end they balance each other out to make this a reasonably decent ... Read More

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