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L.A. Confidential (1997)
As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
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Top Billed Cast
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Jack Vincennes -
Bud White -
Ed Exley -
Dudley Smith -
Lynn Bracken -
Sid Hudgens -
Pierce Patchett -
D.A. Ellis Loew -
'Badge of Honor' Star Brett Chase -
Mickey Cohen -
Johnny Stompanato -
Mickey Cohen's Mambo Partner -
Mickey Cohen's Mambo Partner -
Officer Arresting Mickey Cohen -
Dick Stensland
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Director:
Curtis HansonWriters:
James Ellroy (novel), Brian Helgeland (screenplay), Curtis Hanson (screenplay)All Cast & Crew
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The film has eighty speaking parts.
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Sid Hudgens:
Come to Los Angeles! The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs aplenty, and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a ...
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In the fight scene which takes place in the file room when Bud White confronts Ed Exley with the photographs of him with Lynn, there are table lamps on the desk that are lit up. During the scuffle, one of the lamp light bulbs burns out and once the scuffle is over, the light is back on as if the bulb didn't burn out.
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Characters from the movie were incorporated into period stock footage shown during the credits
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Genres
Crime | Drama | Mystery | ThrillerDetails
Release Date:
19 September 1997Language
English
Country of Origin
USABox Office
Budget:
$35,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$5,211,198 (USA) (21 September 1997)
Gross:
$64,616,940 (USA)
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