# City of Lies (2018)

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**Runtime**: 112 min
**Genres**: Crime, Thriller, Drama
**Directed by**: Brad Furman
**Written by**: Christian Contreras
**Starring**: Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Toby Huss, Dayton Callie, Neil Brown Jr., Shea Whigham

> *The only thing more notorious than the crime, was the cover up.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Bullet casings glint under flickering streetlights at 3 a.m.

A rogue LAPD detective and a disgraced journalist dig into two unsolved rap murders, their flashlights cutting through decades of sealed files.

Brad Furman’s procedural drags the city’s rot into daylight, one leaked memo at a time.

**Mood tags**: gut-punch, paranoid, raw

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