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Not enough people went to see True Crime in cinemas. Wasn't Clint Eastwood too old to be playing a guy who a variety of glorious women, from the middle-aged Diane Venora and Laila Robins to the young Mary McCormack and Lucy Liu, find attractive? Could the onetime Man with No Name credibly play a brilliant crime reporter, Steve Everett, with an ironic turn of phrase and an incurable habit of screwing up both his personal and professional lives? The respective answers to those questions are: hell no and hell yes. True Crime features one of Eastwood's best and most entertaining performances--and his work as director is utterly assured.
The story (from Andrew Klavan's bestselling novel) gives Everett the last-minute assignment of interviewing a condemned man (Isaiah Washington) on the eve of his execution. The prisoner, a born-again Christian and exemplary family man, has everything the reporter lacks except a shot at seeing the next sunrise. Everett sets out to get him that, yet far from making a beeline to the exculpatory evidence that will save the life of his "client," this very tarnished hero has to spend a lot of the next 24 hours contending with the baggage he's accumulated through drinking, wenching and familial neglect. (A Pirandellian note: Everett's daughter is played by Eastwood's own daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, and her mother, Frances Fisher, returns for a feisty cameo as a prosecutor.) This is a good one that got away. Don't let it happen again. --Richard T Jameson
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1.85 Wide Screen
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
The Scene Of The Crime
True Crime True Stories
Arabic\Bulgarian\English\Romanian
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
The Scene Of The Crime
True Crime True Stories
Arabic\Bulgarian\English\Romanian
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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Meet washed up reporter Steve Everett. He`s back on the wagon(just)and sleeping with his boss`s wife while neglecting his own and young daughter. The one thing stopping editor James Woods from firing Everett is his nose for a story - and that nose is telling him that death-sentenced murderer(Washington)is innocent. For a film that covers just 24 hours of a man`s life, the plot unravels at a maddenigly pedestrian pace. Key performances are superb(Leary restrained, Woods always reliable) and there are flashes of Clint`s old intensity, but this is sub-par from the former man with no name. The DVD meanwhile is a revelation, packed with two behined the scenes featurette that shed light on the Eastwood`s film-making process and a music video of the haunting torch song-esque theme `Why Should I Care?` True Crime is an average, beat the clock thriller, but the great extras are a gift at this low price.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I don't know about you but I grow bored with seeing Eastwood in bed with girls young enough to be his great-granddaughters. This movie is another such. However, once Eastwood stops trying to act like a geriatric jock, and gets himself back behind the camera, where he belongs, we get the benefit of his undoubted ability as a Director. This otherwise undistinguished 'save the innocent victim' movie is deftly done, and well worth the price. I do not need to describe the plot, you can guess it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Crusty old Clint! He seems to have taken, as grizzled journalist Steve Everett, a piece of every TV detective cliche, stuck them all in a bag of M & M's and given it a good shake.
So, of course he's a boozy old swine, who neglects his much younger wife and inconceivably conceived young child of a daughter, drives a rusty old convertible that overheats and has repair patches on its roof. Naturally, he's sleeping with his boss' wife and is constant fear (wish?) of getting fired. And, of course, he made one giant wallop of a mistake years ago, when someone went free and they shouldn't have and that hangs over him like his worst hangover.
Meanwhile, a six year old murder case and the accused, a black father and husband is on his last day of his life, before a lethal injection will claim him. So, of course, everything is left until the last second to prove his innocence.
Clint is amiable enough, haphazard in a slightly appealing way but the film is long and there are many distractions and detours to endure along the way. If you're undemanding and don't need to go to bed etc. then you won't complain too much, but don't expect it all to be profound and meaningful police deduction techniques. There's also some rather cloying emotional stuff going on with the death-row prisoner and his daughter that may seem a bit overdone, depending on your point of view.
There are, of course, worse crime thriller/dramas and thankfully, a lot of much better ones, too. The fact that it's Clint goes an awful long way and it might just have been unbearable without him.
So, of course he's a boozy old swine, who neglects his much younger wife and inconceivably conceived young child of a daughter, drives a rusty old convertible that overheats and has repair patches on its roof. Naturally, he's sleeping with his boss' wife and is constant fear (wish?) of getting fired. And, of course, he made one giant wallop of a mistake years ago, when someone went free and they shouldn't have and that hangs over him like his worst hangover.
Meanwhile, a six year old murder case and the accused, a black father and husband is on his last day of his life, before a lethal injection will claim him. So, of course, everything is left until the last second to prove his innocence.
Clint is amiable enough, haphazard in a slightly appealing way but the film is long and there are many distractions and detours to endure along the way. If you're undemanding and don't need to go to bed etc. then you won't complain too much, but don't expect it all to be profound and meaningful police deduction techniques. There's also some rather cloying emotional stuff going on with the death-row prisoner and his daughter that may seem a bit overdone, depending on your point of view.
There are, of course, worse crime thriller/dramas and thankfully, a lot of much better ones, too. The fact that it's Clint goes an awful long way and it might just have been unbearable without him.
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Name sake
I was completely amazed when I realised that the reporter played by Clint Eastwood has the same name as me. Brilliant movie and certainly moved me to tears!!
Published 5 months ago by Mr Steve Everett
There's lots to admire in this Eastwood flick.
Directed by, produced by, and of course starring Clint Eastwood, True Crime is an above par thriller in which a burnt out reporter attempts to unravel a crime to against the clock,... Read more
Published 5 months ago by The Truth
Too slow and not one of his best!
May be Spoilers:As a fan of Eastwood who has been watching him since his small screen days as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide I'm sorry to say that I found didn't find this film as good as... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Patrick H. Williams
Good
This is a good film,looks a little dated now but still typically great Clint Eastwood performance as always. Read more
Published 7 months ago by herbie
Slow build-up to a clock ticking climax...
True Crime is a sophisticated crime thriller that takes time to delve into its lead character -Clint Eastwood - who promptly turns out to be very much like the Eastwood character... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Lord Anon
True Crimes
This is a fantastic movie, also a true story. It's one of those movies that keeps you on the edge of your seat till the end.
Published 9 months ago by debbie
True crime
I don't know what these people are moaning at he is a great director and actor and a living legend and an asset to the film industry it will be a sad day when he is gone.
Published 10 months ago by mr mt williams
No More Clint !!!
Well not sure how some of the other's give this film more than a 1 star ,for me being a Clint fan this is definately the worst film I've seen him in. Read more
Published 16 months ago by lord elpus
It's not just Clint who's showing a bit of wear around the edges here.
True Crime is directed by Clint Eastwood and is based on Andrew Klavan's 1997 novel of the same name. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Spike Owen
tense drama
I was one of the many that must have missed a limited cinema release. Glad to catch up on a DVD that is very cheap and well worth watching. Read more
Published 20 months ago by N. Brett
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