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DVD : True CrimeIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods, Denis Leary directed by: Clint Eastwood  Amazon.com's Price: $9.98 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790742267 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790742268 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 10, 1999 Running Time: 127 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: March 19, 1999 Sales Rank: 22606 MPN: WARD16323D Related Items: Editorial Review: Product Description: Steve everett is a faltering reporter recovering alcoholic and a womanizer. One editor wants him ousted: the other is the only one at the paper who still believes in him. When steve discovers that the key witness in the trial of a prisoner scheduled to die lied on the stand he only has 12 hours to prove his innocence. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/07/2004 Starring: Clint Eastwood Denis Leary Run time: 127 minutes Rating: R Director: Clint Eastwood Amazon.com: Not enough people went to see True Crime in theaters. Wasn't Clint Eastwood too old to be playing a guy whom a variety of glorious women, from the middle-aged Diane Venora and Laila Robins to the young Mary McCormack and Lucy Liu, find attractive? Could the onetime Man with No Name credibly play a brilliant crime reporter, Steve Everett, with an ironic turn of phrase and an incurable habit of screwing up both his personal and professional lives? The respective answers to those questions are: hell no and hell yes. True Crime features one of Eastwood's best and most entertaining performances--and his work as director is utterly assured. The story (from Andrew Klavan's bestselling novel) gives Everett the last-minute assignment of interviewing a condemned man (Isaiah Washington) on the eve of his execution. The prisoner, a born-again Christian and exemplary family man, has everything the reporter lacks except a shot at seeing the next sunrise. Everett sets out to get him that, yet far from making a beeline to the exculpatory evidence that will save the life of his "client," this very tarnished hero has to spend a lot of the next 24 hours contending with the baggage he's accumulated through drinking, wenching, and familial neglect. (A Pirandellian note: Everett's daughter is played by Eastwood's own daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, and her mother, Frances Fisher, returns for a feisty cameo as a prosecutor.) This is a good one that got away. Don't let it happen again. -- Richard T. Jameson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - True CrimeI have never been a Clint Eastwood fan, neither disliking him or liking him, however, this movie was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. I thought it was well written, well acted and I really liked the ending. It might've been "predictable" to some but I wasn't sure how it would turn out. I thought it had a great storyline and wasn't at all predictable. (You figure it will be a 50/50 chance of how it ends and if THAT makes it predictable, then I suppose it was). It's a good, interesting ... Read More Rating: - True CrimeFantastic. I just love all of Clint Eastwood's movies. This is a definite keeper. Would recommend purchasing it to anyone. Rating:  - HorrificAhhh.... just what the world needs: another mindless, pointlessly violent movie filled with gushing blood and bloodthirsty gangsters that do all sorts of things that are against the law, such as stealing and killing to name a couple. To top off it all off, you get to watch Clint Eastwood as his character tries to rescue an innocent man from the death penalty via electrocution. If you like Clint Eastwood, then might I suggest "Million Dollar Baby"? It's no masterpiece, but it's far more interesting and entertaining ... Read More Rating:  - Trite and cliché-riddenAfter watching 36 minutes of this trite and cliché-ridden waste, I am bailing out on it. It has totally failed to engage me or create the least expectation that there might be something interesting to come. A total cardboard cutout production and a major disappointment from Clint. Rating:  - True CrimeThis movie has its good and bad points and in the end they balance each other out to make this a reasonably decent movie to watch once. Personally, I'm not an especially big fan of these race-against-time kind of movies--especially when they are based upon true events. There's an important message in this movie, and it could have been handled in a more original manner. Not one of Clint's best movies, but certainly not one of his worst, either. Browse for similar items by category:
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