Everything is suspect... Everyone is for sale... And nothing is what it seems.
Three 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.
CrimeMysteryThrillercorruptionbased on novel or bookcall girlshotgundetectivefemme fataledomestic violencewhodunitcorpsedistrict attorneymovie stargood cop bad cop
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Character
Classical in form, meticulous, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
Who loves it, who doesn't
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Cast
- Kevin SpaceyJack Vincennes
- Russell CroweWendell 'Bud' White
- Guy PearceEdmund 'Ed' Exley
- James CromwellDudley Smith
- Kim BasingerLynn Bracken
- Danny DeVitoSid Hudgens
- David StrathairnPierce Patchett
- Ron RifkinD.A. Ellis Loew
- Graham BeckelDick Stensland
- Amber SmithSusan Lefferts
Crew
- Curtis HansonDirector
- Brian HelgelandScreenplay
- Curtis HansonScreenplay
- James EllroyNovel
- Dante SpinottiDirector of Photography
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Peter HonessEditor
- Curtis HansonProducer
- Michael G. NathansonProducer
- Arnon MilchanProducer
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Night and the City 195073% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Dangerous Liaisons 198872% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, meticulous.
The Great Silence 196871% alikeBoth grave, earnest, bleak.
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