L.A. Confidential (1997)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Sep 19, 1997
Running Time: 135 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
director: Curtis Hanson
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Set against the glamorous backdrop of 1950's Los Angeles, Sid Hudgeons is the sleazy reporter for the tabloid "Hush-Hush" who has always helped ferret out a scandal that Sid can mine for a potential celebrity bust. Jack Vincennes is a celebrity cop who serves as the technical advisor for a TV show called "Badge of Honor." He becomes involved in a murder investigation which will link him to a web of corruption and scandal involving fellow detectives Ed Exley and Bud White. White and Exley are involved with Lynn Bracken, a woman who is the key to a murder investigation both men are trying to solve under the watchful eyes of the DA and the entire police department.
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February 21, 2001
Check the back shelves of your video store for the moldering remains of films that want to be Chinatown. Robert Towne's Oscar-winning screenplay for that 1974 crime classic, starring Jack Nicholson as private eye Jake Gittes, used a 1930s water scandal to track corruption in the City of Angels and reflect the moral compromises of the Watergate era in which the film was made. Piss-poor imitators, including Mulholland Falls and The Two Jakes, a Chinatown sequel, were clobbered both critically and… Continued
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Jack Vincennes
Bud White
Ed Exley
Dudley Smith
Lynn Bracken
Sid Hudgens
Pierce Patchett
District Attorney Ellis Loew
'Badge of Honor' Star Brett Chase
Mickey Cohen
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