True Crime (1999)

Written by Andrew Klavan, Larry Gross

Directed by Clint Eastwood

Running Time: 145 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1999

Rating: 15 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood), is the journalist for the Oakland Tribune. He has a passion for women (mainly his bosses wives) and alcohol, and now its built up so much that his life is about ready to set a nosedive.

He has now been given the chance of performing the final interview of a condemned murderer, Frank Beachum (Isaiah Washington).

During his research however, Steve finds that there are several discrepancies in the evidence which could have easily changed the outcome of the man's trial. He immediately figures out that the key witness in the trial, did in fact lie about what he saw.

On visiting the man on death row, Steve confirms his suspicions that the man is, in fact, innocent.

Now Steve must race against the clock (a mere 12 hours), and impending execution date, to find out the whole truth and get the sentence revoked, and also save his faltering career.

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Cast

	Clint Eastwood		Steve Everett
	Isaiah Washington		Frank Louis Beechum
	Lisa Gay Hamilton		Bonnie Beechum
	James Woods		Alan Mann
	Denis Leary		Bob Findley
	Bernard Hill		Warden Luther Plunkitt
	Diane Venora		Barbara Everett
	Michael McKean		Reverend Shillerman
	Michael Jeter		Dale Porterhouse
	Mary McCormack		Michelle Ziegler
	Hattie Winston		Angela Russel
	Penny Bae Bridges		Gail Beechum
	Francesca Fisher-Eastwood		Kate Everett
	John Finn		Reedy
	Laila Robins		Patricia Findley