L.A. Confidential R
Everything is suspect... Everyone is for sale... And nothing is what it seems.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 11, 2015
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: New Regency
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe & Kevin Spacey | |
Performer: | Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell & David Strathairn | |
Directed by | Curtis Hanson | |
Edited by | Peter Honess | |
Screenwriting by | Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson | |
Composition by | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Produced by | Arnon Milchan, Michael G. Nathanson & Curtis Hanson | |
Director of Photography: | Dante Spinotti |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1997 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson
Academy Awards 1997 -
Best Supporting Actress: Kim Basinger
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] crime classic. Faithful in spirit to James Ellroy's grimy masterpiece....Irresistible but deadly.
Total Film
[T]he style is delicately ironic. Curtis Hanson directed a flawless cast...
Wall Street Journal
...There are convincing characters here....Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce are two Australian actors who here move convincingly into starmaking roles...
Chicago Sun-Times
Hanson has made the film noir setting virtually another starring character.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
What makes LA Confidential such a perfect film of the Nineties is not that the legend takes over from the fact, since that's almost invariably the case, but that the legend is so knowingly, so unanxiously embraced -- as legend.
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London Review of Books
Like Chinatown before it, this twisted and twisting tale of cops, crime, corruption and hangers-on in 1950s Los Angeles artfully evokes the flip side of the City of Dreams.
People Magazine
Jerry Goldsmith's work for 'L.A. Confidential 'is a compendium of the talent that this master had accumulated during his four decades of career. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Espinof
Product Description:
Director Curtis Hanson captures the duality of 1950s Los Angeles in this striking film noir adaptation of James Ellroy's novel. The City of Angels might be sunny, inviting, and glamorous to the rest of the world, but it's also filled with corrupt cops, elegant hookers, murder cover-ups, and manipulative paparazzi, all of which are just the tip of the iceberg. It's impossible to know exactly who's trustworthy and who's not as three detectives (Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, and Guy Pearce) each use their own tactics to investigate a coffee-shop massacre.
The script by Hanson and Brian Helgeland maintains the fragile framework of human relationships developed in the novel, while 45 different shooting locations give the film a solidly unique tone and feeling of integrity, immersing the viewer in 1950s Los Angeles. The entire cast is first-rate, with compelling performances from Spacey, Crowe, Pearce, James Cromwell, Danny DeVito, Kim Basinger, and David Strathairn.
The script by Hanson and Brian Helgeland maintains the fragile framework of human relationships developed in the novel, while 45 different shooting locations give the film a solidly unique tone and feeling of integrity, immersing the viewer in 1950s Los Angeles. The entire cast is first-rate, with compelling performances from Spacey, Crowe, Pearce, James Cromwell, Danny DeVito, Kim Basinger, and David Strathairn.
Keywords:
Detectives
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Prostitution
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Murder
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Cops
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Film Noir
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Blackmail
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Recommended
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Big City
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Corruption
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 111,905
- UPC: 024543215417
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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