True Crime
1999 · Movie · R · 127 min · ★ 6.5 · 61% critics
A troubled newspaper reporter gets a last-minute assignment to cover a death row execution, then becomes convinced the condemned man may be innocent. With the clock ticking toward midnight, he scrambles to recheck the case, chase down leads, and confront his own messy personal life along the way.
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Details
- Years
- 1999
- Release date
- 1999-03-19
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Critic score
- 61/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (859 votes)
- Budget
- $55,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a straightforward, ticking-clock justice drama with strong performances and moral questions, in the vein of Blood Work or In the Line of Fire; Not for you if you dislike implausible coincidences or messy personal subplots.
Pros: race-against-time urgency; strong cast performances; timely justice themes | Cons: uneven side plot; implausible leaps; humor often misfires
Themes
- journalist
- death penalty
- death row
- doomed man
- ambition
- recovering alcoholic
Cast & crew
Clint Eastwood
as Steve Everett
Isaiah Washington
as Frank Louis Beechum
LisaGay Hamilton
as Bonnie Beechum
James Woods
as Alan Mann
Denis Leary
as Bob Findley
Bernard Hill
as Warden Luther Plunkitt
Diane Venora
as Barbara Everett
Michael McKean
as Réverend Shillerman
Michael Jeter
as Dale Porthouse
Mary McCormack
as Michelle Ziegler
Directed by Clint Eastwood