True Crime Page #2

Synopsis: Steve Everett, Oakland Tribune journalist with a passion for women and alcohol, is given the coverage of the upcoming execution of murderer Frank Beachum. His attractive colleague Michelle died in a car accident the night before. Bob Findley, Steve's boss and husband to Steve's current affair, wants him dead and gone as soon as possible. When Steve stumbles across the possibility of Frank Beachum being innocently on death row, Bob feels his time to have come. Now Steve only has a few hours left to prove the innocence of Frank and to be right with this theory, as he definitely will be history if he's not.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Clint Eastwood
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
54%
R
Year:
1999
127 min
691 Views


Anyway, I got blackballed

all over town.

You bad man!

What did your wife say?

We'd just had the kid,

so she took it kind of hard.

But Alan offered us

this gig out here.

Another town, another change.

Bad man!

First the owner's daughter,

now the editor's wife.

Do I detect a little...

...hostility towards authority figures?

Only ones I work for.

Is that what you'll say

in the next town with someone else?

"I got caught with the editor's wife.

You know."

I get caught

with the editor's wife...

...there's not many more towns

that'll have me.

So playtime's over?

You've got to go to work.

I've got to get home...

...see if the wife and kid

still recognize me.

You won't tell me how awful we are,

will you?

Bob, he's a decent sort.

Good newspaperman, solid editor.

So this all just stinks...

...right?

What we're doing?

Patricia...

...you and I are just two people

swimming through the passions of life.

You know?

Look, it's all right.

It's not like I love you or anything.

That's good.

Because I don't love you too.

All right.

Yes, all right.

You won't believe this.

What?

That was Bob.

What'd he want?

He was looking for you.

Who told him?

How should I know?

Morning, Frank.

Mr. Plunkitt.

Anything I can get for you?

Anything you need?

No, not anything I can think of.

There's some matters

I gotta discuss with you.

Figured we'd do it first,

get it out of the way.

Your dinner tonight,

for one thing...

...can be pretty much

anything you want.

You go ahead and tell Reedy here

when you decide.

Now, about your personal effects...

My wife will take them.

And your remains?

That go for your remains too?

If she can't afford the funeral...

Our church raised some money.

It's all right.

So your wife will be claiming

your remains?

Yes, sir, that's right.

I want to give you some idea

of what's going to happen tonight.

We'll have to ask your visitors

to leave at 7 p.m.

You'll be given your dinner

and a fresh set of clothes.

We'll come for you about a half-hour

before the procedure.

You'll be taken

into the procedure room.

They'll hook an EKG up to you

and the intravenous lines.

But nothing's going to happen

early or anything.

Right up until 12:01,

we'll be monitoring the phones.

We got lines to the attorney

general and the governor.

And those we check to make sure

they're working.

You have any questions?

No.

Just one more thing,

and then I'll leave you in peace.

- It's about the sedative.

- I don't want one.

Sedative's completely optional, Frank.

It can make things a lot easier.

I don't want it.

I appreciate it, Mr. Plunkitt...

...but I want to be clear in my mind.

When I see my wife,

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Larry Gross

Larry Gross (born 1953) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. He is a visiting professor of film and new media at New York University Abu Dhabi. Best known for his collaborations with Walter Hill, his credits include 48 Hrs. (1982), Streets of Fire (1984), and uncredited contributions to Ralph Bakshi's Cool World (1992). He won the 2004 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004). His criticism has appeared in Film Comment and Sight & Sound.Gross attended St Edmund Hall, Oxford and Bard College, from which he graduated in 1974. He later completed an MA in English at Columbia University (where he subsequently served as an adjunct assistant professor of film) and an MA in film studies at New York University.In 2008, Gross who is the co-writer of 48 Hrs. has his contemporaneous diary of his days on set published on the MovieCityNews website. more…

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