True Crime

Mar 19, 1999

2h 7m

★ 6.5

An innocent man has only 12 hours to live...

Overview

Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Thriller

Mystery

Production Companies

The Zanuck Company

Malpaso Productions

Warner Bros. Pictures

True Crime Trailers

Cast

Steve Everett

Clint Eastwood

Frank Louis Beechum

Isaiah Washington

Bonnie Beechum

LisaGay Hamilton

Alan Mann

James Woods

Bob Findley

Denis Leary

Warden Luther Plunkitt

Bernard Hill

Barbara Everett

Diane Venora

Réverend Shillerman

Michael McKean

Dale Porthouse

Michael Jeter

Michelle Ziegler

Mary McCormack

Mrs. Russel

Hattie Winston

Gail Beechum

Penny Bae Bridges

After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.

6.2

Never Been Kissed

Apr 9, 1999

Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popular clique on campus. But she hits a major snag in her investigation -- not to mention her own failed love life -- when she falls for her dreamy English teacher, Sam Coulson.

6.2

Fatherland

Nov 26, 1994

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.

6.6

Kalifornia

Jun 24, 1993

A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.

5.4

Too Young to Die

Feb 26, 1990

An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.

5.3

Life Love Death

Jan 29, 1969

François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out: after three dates, he strangles some prostitutes, when, the victim of blackmail, he becomes dishonored. He is taken to court, and sentenced to be killed by a guillotine.

7.1

The Hudsucker Proxy

Mar 11, 1994

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

0.0

We're All Going to Die

Oct 31, 2024

Ben is worried. Overwhelmed by the world's encroaching crises, he travels from Brandenburg to London to Kansas to the Yucatan peninsula and many places in between, to find out how to cope with social and ecological collapse.

7.7

The Thin Blue Line

Aug 28, 1988

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

5.8

Wet Asphalt

Apr 2, 1958

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.

6.0

Fletch Lives

Mar 17, 1989

Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.

6.9

Nothing But the Truth

Dec 19, 2008

When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

6.3

Red Corner

Oct 30, 1997

An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.

7.5

The Executioner

Aug 31, 1963

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

6.0

Opera Prima

Apr 2, 1980

Matias meets Violeta, his cousin one morning in Madrid at the Plaza de Opera. He is twenty-five. She is 18. He's a divorced journalist trying to write a thriller. She studies violin. She's a vegetarian. He loves meat. Many things separate them, but he moves into her apartment.

6.0

Lions for Lambs

Oct 22, 2007

Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.

6.4

Interview

Jul 13, 2007

After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.

6.7

The Ferpect Crime

Sep 10, 2004

A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman.