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| TRUE CRIME (1999) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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, 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Clint Eastwood (Steve Everett), Isaiah Washington (Frank Louis Beachum), Lisa Gay Hamilton (Bonnie Beachum), James Woods (Alan Mann), Denis Leary (Bob Findley), Bernard Hill (Warden Luther Plunkitt), Diane Venora (Barbara Everett), Michael McKean (Reverend Shillerman), Michael Jeter (Dale Porterhouse), Mary McCormack (Michelle Ziegler), Hattie Winston (Angela Russel), Penny Bae Bridges (Gail Beachum), Francesca Ruth Eastwood (Kate Everett), John Finn (Reedy), Laila Robins (Patricia Findley), Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Jane March), Erik King (Pussy Man / Santa Clause), Graham Beckel (Arnold Mc Cardle), Frances Fisher (D.A. Cecilia Nussbaum), Marissa Ribisi (Amy Wilson), Christine Abersole (Bridget Rossiter), Anthony Zerbe (Governor Henry Lowenstein), Nancy Giles (Leesha Mitchell), Tom McGowan (Tom Donaldson), William Windom (Neil), Don West (Dr. Roger Waters), Lucy Kiu (Toy Shop Girl), Dina Eastwood (Wilma Francis). | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood (The Gauntlet). WRITERS: Larry Gross, Paul Brickman and Stephen Schiff, and based on the novel by Andrew Klavan. PRODUCERS: Clint Eastwood, Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Tom Rooker. ORIGINAL MUSIC: Lennie Niehaus (score), Clint Eastwood (songs). DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. |
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| Alan Mann: Stop fucking Bob's wife. He doesn't like it. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| RELEASE DATE: March 19th, 1999 (USA) BOX OFFICE OPENING: $5.2 million (USA) BOX OFFICE RESULT: $16.6 million (USA) BUDGET: $55 million (USA) SHOOTING DATES: May 1998 -- ??? |
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| Steve Everett: I'll have a Virgin Mary ... heavy on the Virgin. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Steve Everett: When my nose tells me something stinks, I gotta have faith in it. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Alan Mann: Look, if he comes to me for your ass, I'm going to have to give it to him. Then you'll just be a hole, with no ass around it. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Steve Everett: You're right, pal. Santa Claus rides alone. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| "Eastwood handles it professionally, intelligently, and beautifully." -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Steve Everett: Mister Beachum...Frankly I don't give a rat's ass about Jesus Christ and I don't care about justice in this world, or the next. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| "Dirty Harry Callahan never would have dropped to take anyone to the zoo that he wasn't feeding to the tigers." -- Curtis Edmonds, TXReviews.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Alan Mann: You wanna know what my opinion is about reporters who have hunches? I can't fart loud enough to express my opinion!!! | |||||||||||||||||||||
| "Hard to swallow." -- Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews | |||||||||||||||||||||
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