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L.A. Confidential
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L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American crime, neo-noir, mystery, and drama film directed by Curtis Hanson. The screenplay was written by Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson, and James Ellroy, based on the work L.A. Confidential. The cast includes Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, and Kim Basinger. Produced by Arnon Milchan and Curtis Hanson, the film was produced by Regency Enterprises and Warner Bros. Entertainment. It was filmed in Long Beach and set in Los Angeles, focusing on the Los Angeles Police Department, Jewish-American organized crime, and police corruption.
The film has a runtime of 138 minutes and was released on September 19, 1997. It received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. Additionally, it won the National Board of Review Award for Best Film and was named to the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films. The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography.
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7.8Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Cast
- Kevin Spacey as Jack Vincennes
- Russell Crowe as Wendell 'Bud' White
- Guy Pearce as Edmund 'Ed' Exley
- James Cromwell as Dudley Smith
- Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken
- Danny DeVito as Sid Hudgens
Themes
- corruption
- based on novel or book
- call girl
- shotgun
- detective
- femme fatale
- domestic violence
- whodunit
- corpse
- district attorney
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- L.A. Confidential
- Main subject
- police corruption
- Director
- Curtis Hanson
- Screenwriter
- James Ellroy
- Cast member
- Darrell Sandeen
- Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Producer
- Curtis Hanson
- Production company
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Dante Spinotti
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Filming location
- Long Beach
- Duration
- 132
- FilmAffinity ID
- 474411
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1997-12-04
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Sound
- film editor
- Peter Honess
- title
- L.A. Confidential
- production designer
- Jeannine Oppewall
- after a work by
- James Ellroy
- distributed by
- Netflix
- box office
- 126216
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 8.2/10
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Encyclopedic overview
L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Curtis Hanson. The screenplay, by Hanson and Brian Helgeland, is based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel, the third book in his L.A. Quartet series. The film tells the story of a group of LAPD officers in 1953, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity. The title refers to the 1950s scandal magazine Confidential, portrayed in the film as Hush-Hush.
At the time, actors Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe were relatively unknown in North America. One of the film's backers, Peter Dennett, was worried about the lack of established stars in the lead roles, but supported Hanson's casting decisions, and Hanson had the confidence to also recruit Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger, and Danny DeVito.
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