3.9
5
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.
- DIRECTOR
-
- Curtis Hanson
- WRITERS
-
- James Ellroy
- Brian Helgeland
- Regency Enterprises
- STUDIOS
-
- Regency Enterprises
- Wolper Organization, The
- Warner Bros.
LA in the 50's: someone's killing imprisoned mob boss Mickey Cohen's gang. The police, led by Captain Dudley, convince wiseguys from Jersey, Cleveland, and elsewhere to go home. Rich developer, Pierce Patchett, runs a stable of high-class hookers who are ringers for movie stars. The plot to replace Cohen blindsides three plainclothes cops: White watched his father beat his mother to death then vanish, he punishes abusers with quick violence; Exley's father was a hero cop killed mysteriously, he seeks justice by the book; Vicennes, a clothes horse, consults for a Dragnet-like TV show. Will they escape corruption and murder, will they find their own morality?
SIMILAR MOVIES
-
Vantage Point
2008 •90 min -
True Crime
1999 •127 min -
The Walker
2007 •108 min -
Death of a President
2006 •97 min
