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- 1999
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 7 m
- 1999
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 7 m
Summary One day before a convicted murderer (Washington) is to be executed, a reporter (Eastwood) discovers proof of his innocence.
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: Andrew Klavan, Larry Gross, Paul Brickman, Stephen Schiff
- 1999
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 7 m
- 1999
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 7 m
True Crime
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Summary One day before a convicted murderer (Washington) is to be executed, a reporter (Eastwood) discovers proof of his innocence.
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: Andrew Klavan, Larry Gross, Paul Brickman, Stephen Schiff
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
64
65% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
31% Mixed
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8 Reviews
4% Negative
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1 Review
This is an old-fashioned movie done with wit, grace, smarts and style. [19 March 1999, Friday, p.A]
True Crime gives you sleaze on toast--a heap of tabloid bathos, a dusting of high-mindedness, a dash of gallows humor. It's a bizarre concoction, but it's riveting.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 26 User Ratings
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Wickedly effective thriller.
An anti-capital-punishment polemic that won't change a single mind anywhere on Earth but will entertain well enough everywhere on Earth.
It's a gritty story made in the director's more elegiacal mode, a confusion of style and content that is not in the film's best interests.
Plays like a lost Rockford file.
On the whole, the film is content to lumber awkwardly between the condemned man on death row and the intrepid reporter on his save-a-life beat -- there's about as much rhythm in the style as there is sense in the plot.
Production Company
Warner Bros.,
The Zanuck Company,
Malpaso Productions
Release Date Mar 19, 1999
Duration 2 h 7 m
Rating R
Tagline An innocent man has only 12 hours to live...
Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 2 Nominations
Black Reel Awards
• 1 Nomination
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Nomination
