L.A. Confidential

1997 • 137 minutes

About this movie

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is "tough, gorgeous and vastly entertaining" (James Maslin, THE NEW YORK TIMES) and won 1997 Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (KIM BASINGER) and Best Adapted Screenplay (BRIAN HELGELAND & CURTIS HANSON). Three cops, a call girl, a mysterious millionaire, a tabloid journalist fuel a labyrinthine plot rife with mystery, ambition, romance and humor. "Immersed in the atmosphere and lore of film noir" - Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES"L.A. CONFIDENTIAL deserves a place with the best crime films" - Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE MPAA Rating: R (c) 1997 Warner Brothers. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

This is a movie I see over and over in part because it is complex and hard to remember. In part because it is just a great film with a great script full of memorable witty lines delivered by all kinds of interesting characters. The script is among the best. The scenes are magnificently put together. Every scene counts. Omitted from the credits on Google Play are Guy Pearce, who is top notch, David Strathairn, and a young Simon Baker. (The cast just takes the breath away.) Aside from all this technical work, the way that the three main police detectives learn to work together, despite their very different mindsets and types of expertise, to solve a crime, makes for really fine drama. Only the final shoot out is a little bit long, probably because few lines, except the clincher at its end.

"L.A. Noire" minus WW2, plus better story with great main characters. Watching high quality helped me appreciate the '50s setting much more B-) throughout this lengthy plot. The overall crime plot isn't unique among modern films... many names to remember.

I don't have words to describe this movie. Awesome acting by crowe, spacey and others. Thriller plot supported by great action. Things could not have been better than this