True Crime (1999)
Steve Everett, Oakland Tribune journalist with a passion for women and alcohol, is given the coverage of the upcoming execution of murderer Frank Beachum. His attractive colleague Michelle died in a car accident the night before. Bob Findley, Steve's boss and husband to Steve's current affair, wants him dead and gone as soon as possible. When Steve stumbles across the possibility of Frank Beachum being innocently on death row, Bob feels his time to have come... (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: Larry Gross, Andrew Klavan
Starring: Clint Eastwood, James Woods, Michael McKean, Lucy Liu, Denis Leary, Frances Fisher, William Windom, Mary McCormack, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Francesca Eastwood
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
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True Crime belongs to 5 collections
1. Films available in HD (collaborative: moderated by kubricksucks - 13 stars)
2. Journalism (collaborative: moderated by djross - 9 stars)
3. Director/star combination (collaborative: moderated by djross - 5 stars)
4. Capital Punishment (collaborative: moderated by mpowell - 2 stars)
5. seen in 2021 (public: sproost)
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| Jul 15, 2021 |  |
sproost | 60 44th |
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Dead Man's Curve, they really ought to do something about that place (said while shaking off multiple police cars with a .. donut).
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| Sep 14, 2019 |  |
Vandelay1 | 36 30th |
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not so good
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| Sep 02, 2019 |  |
moraesfelipe | 80 85th |
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Weird as hell - black homeless yelling at women, Speed Zoo, clumsy, dark humor bits - but still works as journalistic thriller about an asshole old reporter and his hunches. The rushed ending feels adds layers to its overall welcoming stupidity - Ev discovering that other black man shot the white girl, bringing the mother to talk to the newspaper's owner to stop the death sentence - but its emotional moments (interview, Frank's encounter with family) make this pretty better than average.
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| Feb 03, 2018 |  |
wetwillies | 60 10th |
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Viewed February 2, 2018. The only movie daring enough to put Clint Eastwood, James Woods and Denis Leary in a movie together. The homeless man character makes the dog in Sudden Impact look like comedy's finest moment. However, as politically and dramatically confused as this is, it has a couple of qualities that I love in Clint's work, namely the thematic focus on ethics, and the sheer emotional drive of good, honest people working in a broken world.
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| Aug 11, 2014 | Zipster | 85 68th |
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The more inescapably close it gets to the inmate's execution, the more irrevocably defective his only human hope is. There is in fact not one single reductively good or bad person to be found in this constantly compelling story about the instability of perspective, sometimes depending on a few feet's difference in where you're standing.
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| Oct 05, 2013 | glm01 | 76 53rd |
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75.500
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| Dec 26, 2012 |  |
mutter | 60 44th |
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Pace, tension and humour didn't pick up until about 45 minutes in, and Clint once again played a recovering alcoholic sugar-daddy. But that's what he does best.
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| Apr 19, 2012 | glm | 75 55th |
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75.000
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| Feb 23, 2011 |  |
TheDiceman | 45 25th |
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Passes the time.
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| Nov 13, 2010 |  |
cat9man | 28 3rd |
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A bad story badly acted and badly directed about a death row execution. Subplots are equally bad. Kill me first.
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| Sep 22, 2010 |  |
hellboy76 | 65 45th |
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Average thriller, but Eastwood would be fun to watch talking about paint drying.
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| May 15, 2010 |  |
graveyardtan | 75 44th |
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Competent (nothing amazing here) directing and acting save this half-hazard screenplay where nothing much of interest happens. But Eastwood's gruff is familiar in a good sort of way, and it's enjoying enough to watch him curmudgeon about smoking a cig.
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| Aug 14, 2009 |  |
westknife | 60 26th |
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Terribly written, reasonably entertaining movie though
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| Aug 02, 2009 |  |
Okkervil | 61 55th |
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Not bad.
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| Jun 13, 2009 |  |
Grit | 51 49th |
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Another reasonably enjoyable Dirty Harry alike. Eastwood might be a journalist here, but he certainly doesn't loose any of that attitude. Overall it's pretty enjoyable, with a familiar but typically well executed death row orientated plotline. Ends a little too abruptly though.
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| Dec 06, 2008 |  |
Der_Barney | 72 20th |
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Eastwood is one of my big heroes in cinema, both as a producer/director and as an actor. But honestly, he's way too old to pull off this particular role convincingly. Denis Leary needs to be in more movies - he's a talker, and so is James Woods. The dynamics between Woods, Leary and Eastwood make for some of the best parts of the movie and the story as such, well...has been done better in other movies such as Dead Man Walking or The Life of David Gale. A lesser Eastwood, this one.
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| Jun 24, 2008 |  |
dst7175 | 65 53rd |
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ARE U KIDDING ME HE SAVES THE GUY LIFE AND ALL HE DOES IS WAVE. LOL
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| Mar 31, 2008 |  |
yilb | 60 58th |
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Pleasantly surprised at how i got so sucked into this story when i would have
thought otherwise. Well done. Really dug the scenes with Clint Dennis &/or
James. The big build up at the end was a bit much.
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| Dec 25, 2007 |  |
aarona1c | 59 52nd |
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Kind of a slight Eastwood movie, but still engaging.
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| Aug 14, 2007 |  |
djross | 45 34th |
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Score based on distant memory.
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| Aug 14, 2007 | spoonerspot | 78 52nd |
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Clint Eastwood slips a little but not much
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| Average Percentile 43.73% from 556 Ratings |  |