True Crime
Short description
Steve Everett is a newspaper reporter whose drinking, womanizing and neglected family life have left his career in ruins. Assigned to profile a death row inmate at San Quentin shortly before the scheduled execution, he begins looking into the case himself and comes to believe the condemned man, Frank Beechum, did not commit the murder. With the execution set for just after midnight, Everett has only hours to find evidence that could stop it.
Clint Eastwood directed and stars in this crime drama, the twenty-first of the forty films he has directed, following Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and preceding Space Cowboys. The screenplay is credited to Larry Gross, Paul Brickman and Stephen Schiff, and Eastwood produced with Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck. Isaiah Washington plays Beechum, with LisaGay Hamilton, James Woods, Denis Leary and Bernard Hill among the supporting cast. The film was released in March 1999 and runs 127 minutes.
Made for about 55 million dollars, it earned roughly 17 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.6 out of 10 from nearly 38,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.5 out of 10 from a much smaller number of votes. A critics' rating of 6 out of 10 across 41 reviews places it close to the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was shot and released two years after the publication in 1997 of the novel of the same name by Andrew Klavan, which served as its basis.
- In the novel of the same name, which served as the literary basis for the film, the prisoner on death row is depicted as white. Clint Eastwood specifically changed his race in the film, believing it would be more appropriate. The novel's author, Andrew Klavan, made the character white, believing it would be more believable when someone would advocate for him.
- When Warner Brothers first became interested in the novel and began considering a film adaptation, George Clooney was initially favored for the lead role. However, problems with the script and the resulting delays in filming led Clooney to pursue other projects.
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