Smoky, bathed in brilliant Southern California sunshine, glitteringly shallow and deeply corrupt, novelist James Ellroy's Los Angeles comes to life in this adaptation of the third entry in his densely plotted "L.A. Quartet," in which the movie industry,
corrupt cops, tabloid journalism, gangsters and sexual obsessions of every stripe are woven into a dreamy vision of a poisonous but achingly irresistible city of the mind. Three of the LAPD's finest take center stage: Bud White (Russell Crowe) is a tormented brute, a natural-born enforcer troubled
by a certain innate decency and the raging need (born, of course, of childhood trauma) to beat the bejesus out of guys w...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
137 mins