True Crime Page #3

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
700 Views


I want to be clear for that.

Fair enough.

You change your mind,

let the officer know.

I just had to give you my sales talk.

Badges will be at the gate.

Got the witness list.

What else?

Roadblocks are up.

Demonstrators are light so far.

- Visitors squared away?

- Wife and kid.

Your girl from the Trib,

Michelle Ziegler, will be here at 4.

Mea culpa.

- She was pretty persuasive.

- Let her persuade me next time.

Arnie, what do you think of Beechum?

Sometimes I think about the girl

he shot dead over $96.

Mostly I think about doing my job.

Warden! Sir!

I repent!

Jesus, Atkins!

Give me some of that p*ssy, baby.

Give me some p*ssy on toast!

I need some of that p*ssy on toast!

Go ahead, baby, shake that thing.

Excuse me.

Can I have some p*ssy on toast?

I just need some p*ssy on toast.

Give me some p*ssy on toast!

- Is that you, newspaperman?

- Back off.

You got money.

Give me some on toast.

Come on, I need it.

Promise me you will not

spend this on food.

Five dollars?

You can give me more than that.

Give me five, give me 10.

Come on, give me 20, Steve.

Give me $ 100,

you got so much money!

You got money on toast, baby!

I know you do.

- Hey, sister!

- Get away from me.

- I know you got some sweet p*ssy!

- Get away from me.

You nasty motherf***er!

Shut your nasty ass up.

I want something on the toast.

Nothing wrong with that.

Put some on the toast for me.

I know she likes me.

I know I'm going to give her

my phone number.

Hello, everyone.

You got my message?

Apparently, you and I

have a little problem.

Do we?

Yes, we do.

Look, Bob...

Michelle Ziegler was killed

in a car wreck last night.

What?

Michelle?

That couldn't be.

I was with her last night.

Oh, no!

She was only 23 or something.

Dead Man's Curve.

My God!

The poor kid!

Just out of school

and 23 or something.

I should have driven her home.

She had an interview set up

with Frank Beechum this afternoon.

The poor...

Beechum.

Yeah, I heard they were going

to juice him today.

In fact, she said she had a seat

for the show.

Four o'clock in the deathwatch cell.

Alan wants you to cover for her.

Is he the one who killed

that pregnant girl?

College student, Amy Wilson.

Working the summer in Richmond.

Place called Pocum's Grocery.

Owed Beechum 96 bucks.

Repairs he did on her car

or something. Shot her dead.

Anything else I should know?

Tough, black mechanic

at the Amoco station in Clayton.

But I warn you, do not pull

a Dick Tracy on this.

I don't want a big investigation.

You can depend on that.

Don't worry.

Says here, Beechum's

one of those born-agains.

Yeah, aren't they all on death row?

Biggest birthrate in the country.

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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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