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Description: James Ellroy's noir novel of police corruption, blackmail, murder, and the innate human desire for illusion--set in its allegorical epicenter, 1950's Los Angeles--brought elegantly and tautly to the screen. The film's brutal subject matter, concerning murders (and coverups) to protect hoi polloi involved in a blackmail scheme with movie-star lookalike prostitutes, hearkens to "The Maltese Falcon" and "Chinatown," but to stop there would belie this film's tremendous emotional depth and subtly rendered human relationships, and its ultimate reaffirmation of the redemptive power of love. A masterpiece, nominated for 9 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, and Best Sound. Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress--Kim Basinger;
Year: 1994
Classification: Crime
Directed: Curtis Hanson
Actors/Actresses: Kevin SpaceyJack Vincennes Russell CroweWendell White Guy PearceEdmund Exley James CromwellDudley Smith Kim BasingerLynn Bracken Danny DeVitoSid Hudgens Frank Sinatra David Strathairn
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