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  • L.A. Confidential
  • Opened September 19, 1997 | Runtime:2 hr. 16 min.
  • R
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. Read More
  • Three policemen, each with his own motives and obsessions, tackle the corruption surrounding an unsolved murder at a downtown Los Angeles coffee shop in the early 1950s. Detective Lieutenant Exley (Guy Pearce), the son of a murdered detective, is out Read More
  • Cast: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, David Strathairn, Danny DeVito
  • Director: Curtis Hanson
  • Genres: Post-Noir (Modern Noir), Mystery, Crime, Police Detective Film

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  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Voluptuously engrossing.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    One of the best crime dramas to come along in years.

  • 100
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    A juicy noir stew of amorality that's the best thing since "Chinatown."

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Seductive and beautiful, cynical and twisted, and one of the best films of the...

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