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Actors: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, James Woods, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about True Crime (1999) |
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After a gas station is robbed and the clerk is killed the wrong man is arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. A journalist covers the case, but he doesn't think that everything adds up; he believes the man is innocent. The journalist investigates and finds another suspect. The real killer is dead, but with the help of the killer's mom, the journalist is able to prove the convicted man's innocent. Just as the lethal injection is place, the journalist convinces the governor to stop it just in time.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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TRUE CRIME is a movie produced and directed by Clint Eastwood in 1999.
Clint Eastwood has merely 24 hours to prove Isaiah Washington innocence of the crime he's been condemned for. If he fails, Isaiah will be executed.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of True Crime (1999) |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Legal Thriller Plotlets:
- finding out whether someone is really guilty
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- wild
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- white
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- muscular (man)
- average build (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 20%
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a deadline
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- prison
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 1
- 2
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- crushed
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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