True Crime (1999)
Product Information
Product Details: True Crime (1999)
- Edition:
- DVD Clint Eastwood Collection. See other editions
- MPAA Rating:
- R
- Release Date:
- 08/01/2000
- UPC:
- 085391860723
- Directed by:
- Clint Eastwood
- Featuring:
- Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary. See all cast
Synopsis: True Crime (1999)
Synopis: 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 (Isaiah Washington), 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. As a director, Eastwood is a confident old hand here, and before he builds up the suspense (and don't worry, he will), he takes the time to delve deep into the lives of his characters and explore the sharp contrast between the cynical Everett, who neglects his family for his job, and the circumspect Beechum, whose greatest torment is not the proximity of his own death but the trauma he's causing his loving wife and daughter. Eastwood gives a wonderfully rich performance, and his rapport with James Woods and Denis Leary, as his newspaper bosses, gives the movie a welcome comic jolt. But the scenes of Beechum's family dealing with his fate are where the movie's overwhelming power lies. Eastwood and his screenwriters pull no punches, and it's difficult to bear witness to the painful, simple truth expressed in these scenes.Features: True Crime (1999)
Features: DVD Features:Region 1
Snap Case
Letterboxed - 1.85:1
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailer -
Theatrical
Filmographies
Music Video
Featurette -
"True Crime: True Stories"
Documentary -
"The Scene of the Crime" (Behind-the-Scenes)
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
User Reviews: True Crime
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Scowling old bastards die the hardest.
, January 30, 2001Reviewer:
Adam - See all Adam's reviews Take a couple of old farts from a home for the elderly, inject them with valium, give one of them a camera and leave them unattended for a couple of hundred years and this is the kind of movie you would get. With all the pace of Ronald Regan this movie makes boredom seem like an orgasm. Plus this film gives Eastwood the opportunity to try out all two of his facial expressions both of which involve scowling. I think Unforgiven is his best movie, and he is most certainly unforgiven for this piece of true crime against the enetertainment industry. ... -
great, great movie.
, March 9, 2000Eastwood delivers in this movie. it's not as action packed as his others, but I'd pay the four bucks to see it again.take my opinion: IT'S GREAT!!!!
