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An investigative reporter whose life is set to take a nose dive is offered the chance to interview a man on death row. The original reporter chosen has been killed in a car accident...Product Identifiers
ProducerLili Fini Zanuck, Clint Eastwood, Richard D. Zanuck
EAN7321900163231
eBay Product ID (ePID)3942881
Product Key Features
ActorIsaiah Washington, Michael Mckean, Marissa Ribisi, Denis Leary, James Woods, Diane Venora, Bernard Hill, Clint Eastwood, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Mary Mccormack, Michael Jeter
Film/TV TitleTrue Crime
DirectorClint Eastwood
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\English\Romanian
Run Time122 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen
Release Year1999
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles, The Scene of the Crime\True Crime True Stories
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
ComposerLennie Niehaus
Production DesignerHenry Bumstead
Additional InformationIn TRUE CRIME, based on Andrew Klavan's novel, Clint Eastwood plays Steve Everett, a capable reporter who's nearly destroyed his career with alcohol and philandering. When he's assigned to do a human interest sidebar on Frank Beechum (Isaiah Washington), who's about to be executed for murder, Everett casually looks into the crime and quickly begins to see how shaky the evidence against Beechum is. As a director, Eastwood is a confident old hand here, and before he builds up the suspense (and don't worry, he will), he takes the time to delve deep into the lives of his characters and explore the sharp contrast between the cynical Everett, who neglects his family for his job, and the circumspect Beechum, whose greatest torment is not the proximity of his own death but the trauma he's causing his loving wife and daughter. Eastwood gives a wonderfully rich performance, and his rapport with James Woods and Denis Leary, as his newspaper bosses, gives the movie a welcome comic jolt. But the scenes of Beechum's family dealing with his fate are where the movie's overwhelming power lies. Eastwood and his screenwriters pull no punches, and it's difficult to bear witness to the painful, simple truth expressed in these scenes.
ReviewsSight and Sound - ...A gleeful, cigar chomping performance from James Woods..., Entertainment Weekly - "...[A] cannily Eastwood-flattering justice drama..." -- Rating: B, New York Times - ...Quietly poignant....TRUE CRIME is directed by Mr. Eastwood with righteous indignation and increasingly strong momentum...
ScreenwriterPaul Brickman, Larry Gross, Stephen Schiff
AuthorAndrew Klavan
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
EditorJoel Cox
Movie/TV TitleTrue Crime
Director of PhotographyJack N. Green