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True Crime, 1999

Starring: Isaiah Washington, Clint Eastwood

Directed by: Clint Eastwood

Written by: Larry Gross

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 127 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:6.4

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Profile of True Crime

The mood of True Crime is clever, tense, and captivating. The plot centers around death row, journalism, and a false accusation. It is a drama, crime, and thriller movie. Stylistically, True Crime is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is California. True Crime happens in the 1990s. It is based on a book. Note that it includes mild violent content.

Summary of True Crime

In 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.