True Crime
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You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett’s faults but there’s no time. Everett is harried, determined and trying not to self-destruct. In his 21st film as diredctor and 41st as star, Clint Eastwood memorably plays Everett in True Crime, a savvy beat-the-clock thriller. Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods, Diane Venora and others populate this suspense tale that tightens to nerve-frying intensity intercutting the parallel stories of the inmate and Everett’s scramble to save him…and perhaps lift his own life out of the trash heap along the way. And the clock is ticking. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent. Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father.
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. 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. -- Richard T. Jameson 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. Not enough people went to see True Crime in theaters. Don't let it happen again. The prisoner, a born-again Christian and exemplary family man, has everything the reporter lacks except a shot at seeing the next sunrise.
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Product Info
- Actor
- Clint Eastwood, James Woods, Diane Venora, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.77:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- DVD
- Brand
- Warner Brothers
- Creator
- Lennie Niehaus, Tom Rooker, Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- EAN
- 0883929107636
- EAN List
- EANListElement: 0883929107636
- Format
- Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Label
- Warner Home Video
- Manufacturer
- Warner Home Video
- MPN
- WARD120099D
- Number Of Discs
- 1
- Package Quantity
- 1
- Part Number
- WARD120099D
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- Warner Home Video
- Region Code
- 1
- Release Date
- 2010-06-01
- Running Time
- 128
- SKU
- D14761
- Studio
- Warner Home Video
- Title
- True Crime
- UPC
- 883929107636
- UPC List
- UPCListElement: 883929107636
- ASIN
- B003AWRMC4
- Sales Rank
- 13636
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