L.A.
Confidential
DOWN &
DIRTY:
Drama: Three police officers,
each with their own distinct
style of law enforcement, uncover
conspiracy and corruption in
their department.
NITTY GRITTY:
It's 1950's Los Angeles, three
police officers have their own
way of dealing with their jobs.
Jack Vincennes (KEVIN SPACEY) is
a cop on the take from a tabloid
editor/reporter, Sid Hudgeons
(DANNY DEVITO), whose magazine
"Hush Hush" prominently
features Jack's recent drug
busts.
Officer Bud White (RUSSELL CROWE)
is often used to physically beat
confessions out of suspects, but
he especially loses his cool when
women are the victims of any
crime.
Ed Exley (GUY PEARCE) is a
straight-laced, by-the-book cop
with big aspirations. After a
police brutality case earns Ed a
promotion, and his associates
contempt for ratting on their
guilty behavior, things seem very
strained among the three.
When one of their former partners
is killed in what appears to be a
routine homicide, they begin to
come across certain unsettling
evidence.
Guided by their veteran captain,
Dudley Smith (JAMES CROMWELL),
the three begin to investigate
many different suspects.
As they dig up more evidence,
they find themselves pitted
against each other as well as
their own department as they
uncover police corruption and
murderous activity.
THE ENDING:
Dudley kills Vincennes when he
gets too close to the truth.
Exley and White get in a shoot
out with the 'bad' cops and Exley
kills Dudley. Exley gets promoted
and White leaves town to live
happily ever after with former
hooker Lynn Bracken (KIM
BASINGER).
WHAT EVERYONE WILL BE
TALKING ABOUT:
The scene in the
restaurant when Exley accuses a
woman of being a hooker 'cut' to
look like Lana Turner and it
REALLY is Lana Turner.
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