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L.A. Confidential

Kevin Spacey (Actor), Russell Crowe (Actor), Curtis Hanson (Director, Producer, Writer) Rated:
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L.A. Confidential (Snap Case)

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In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz)--a compelling blend of L.A. history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolor noir films, Chinatown. Kim Basinger richly deserved her Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a conflicted femme fatale; unfortunately, her male costars are so uniformly fine that they may have canceled each other out with the Academy voters: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, and James Cromwell play LAPD officers of varying stripes. Pearce's character is a particularly intriguing study in Hollywood amorality and ambition, a strait-laced "hero" (and son of a departmental legend) whose career goals outweigh all other moral, ethical, and legal considerations. If he's a good guy, it's only because he sees it as the quickest route to a promotion. --Jim Emerson

Special Features

  • Behind-the-scenes material
  • 3 behind-the-scenes documentary features: Off the Record, including cast-creator interviews; director Curtis Hanson's Photo Pitch; and The L.A. of L.A. Confidential interactive map tour
  • 3 TV Spots

Product Details

  • Actors: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, James Cromwell
  • Directors: Curtis Hanson
  • Writers: Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland, James Ellroy
  • Producers: Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, Brian Helgeland, Dan Kolsrud
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
    R
    Restricted
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: April 21, 1998
  • Run Time: 138 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (987 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 0790734850
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,993 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "L.A. Confidential" on IMDb

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5.0 out of 5 starsAtmospheric, brilliantly written, very well played noirish film about the "hush-hush" days of early Fifties Los Angeles
By Allen Smalling TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on June 14, 2015
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A subtle, sexy, deliberate color "Noir" film set in Los Angeles in the early Fifties. Great performances all around, especially Guy Pearce as the new detective learning the ropes in a mileu full of corruption; Russell Crowe as a grunt detective who thinks his ethics are just fine, thank you; Kim Basinger as a Veronica Lake lookalike and high-class call girl; Danny deVito in a serio-comic role as a sleazy, CONFIDENTIAL magazine-type publisher; and of course Kevin Spacey, who works perfectly in this ensemble. I saw this DVD after having seen the film theatrically over 20 years ago, and feel it has held up well. Not for nothing did Roger Ebert (among others) call this the most accurate movie about L.A. in the postwar era. Buy it and try it -- I doubt you'll regret it!
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5.0 out of 5 starsL. A. Confidential is One of the Greatest Movies of Recent Vintage
By clarence a connelly, jr. on April 2, 2013
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Movies about police corruption are fairly common but this is one of the greatest of all time. The character played by Guy Pearce is idealistic and desires to always do the right thing. Also, his father was a decorated police officer before him. His greatest desire is to make it to detective. He is surrounded, however, by corrupt officers and civilians who abuse the system for their own benefit. Kevin Spacey is a preening peacock and egomaniac who uses his police officer persona to become an adviser to a television program. This time period is when television was just beginning, the fifties. Danny DeVito plays a tabloid journalist who prints articles about the police and other assorted gossip. Russell Crowe plays a seemingly unintelligent officer who turns out to be more intelligent than he seems. Kim Basinger is a high class prostitute in this movie and she is great in it. The best movie she has been in since nine and a half weeks. She got an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Simon Baker plays a gay man trying to make it in Hollywood as an actor. Simon Baker is now on the "Mentalist."

The personification of evil in this movie is played by James Cromwell as a veteran police officer who has gotten to the top ranks by hook and crook. He will do anything to protect his turf, including murdering a fellow officer in cold blood.

This movie builds to a violent climax and each step towards that conclusion is realistic and nuanced. The movie is based on a novel by James McElroy. L. A. Confidential, is in my opinion, one of the finest movies made in the last thirty years. It faithfully evokes the period, the early fifties and the place. Most of the fine ensemble cast have no scruples.
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5.0 out of 5 starsLove this movie
By Consuela Erwin on July 6, 2016
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Love this movie, I was 9 or 10 living in LA when much of this was occurring. Busy being a kid,but I remember hearing via adult family members and the newspaper about a lot of things that happen during the time. The buses, green in color how many times I rode them,and if I'm not mistaken there was a magazine called LA Confidential. The dress that Kim Basinger wore at the end was like the dresses we were wearing at that time especially in the summer. This movie took back to my childhood and young adulthood. *****
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5.0 out of 5 starsFantastic movie!
By S. L. OREILLY on February 28, 2014
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This is an extraordinary story, complex and inventive, which lays the foundation for an extraordinary movie. There are many familiar faces, with each actor inhabiting his or her role so superbly they 'disappear' into the character. Even the two weakest performances (Danny DeVito & Russell Crowe) are very good, if less than original. My favorite thing about this film is that it is enjoyable over multiple viewings - it's a winner as a whodunit and an intense character study, with subtle touches that set it apart from ordinary films.

The setting is Christmas Eve 1953 Hollywood, CA, and opens with a welcome by a sleazy tabloid publisher (DeVito) whose voice-over gives us a quick backstory & brilliantly sets the tone. The local crime boss has recently been apprehended and locked up, and folks are speculating on which wannabe will step in to fill his shoes. L.A. is a hotbed of crime and misdeeds .......
We are then introduced to the cops working said hotbed, namely Edmund Exley (Guy Pearce), the ambitious square peg; Bud White (Crowe) aggressive defender of battered women; Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey), smooth and canny narcotics cop aspiring to celebrity, other cops and players all pursuing their own agendas and carving out their niches. The action gets underway with some station-house mayhem, then the brutal multiple murders at the heart of the story. Exley is intensely determined to solve the crime to earn respect and acceptance within the department, and more importantly, to get promoted. But he's not the only one with a major stake in unraveling this mystery (or muddling it further)! The side stories and apparently random events dovetail into the primary action beautifully as the pieces of the puzzle begin falling into place. I can't say more without giving too much away.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsNoir in the Sunlight
By Milla Cozart Riggio on July 3, 2013
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Directed by Chris Hansen in the 1990s, LA Confidential was set in the 1950s and starred an ensemble cast without a "true" star, though Danny DeVito, Kevin Spacy and Kim Basinger came the closest. The period look of the 50s was created not from the stereotypes of the period but in a more subtly realistic way, and then left to provide the background of a movie driven by character development and converging character lines. Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce, Australians both, portray two of the central three LA cops: the muscle heavy Crowe and the bespectacled intellectual Pearce determined to follow the rules. Kevin Spacy brings a suave Hollywood chic to the third. Though suffused with sunlight and bright decors and absent most of the diagonals, low angles, and chiaroscuro lighting of film noir, this film captures the moral ambiguities and the existential displacement of the noir world in a very different cinematic light. Kim Basinger is beautiful as the Veronica Lake lookalike femme fatale who is also the girl next door from Arizona. Danny DeVito provides a kind of VoiceOver narrative from the Hush Hush world of the original LA Confidential magazine. Terrific supporting cast and beautiful music by Jerry Goldsmith.
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