# L.A. Confidential (1997)

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**Runtime**: 138 min
**Genres**: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
**Directed by**: Curtis Hanson
**Written by**: Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland
**Starring**: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito

> *Everything is suspect... Everyone is for sale... And nothing is what it seems.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

1953. The last neon flickers over L.A. like a dying pulse.

A corpse-splattered diner, a telephoto lens, a starlet’s scream looping on a radio.

Hanson channels Chandler by way of Altman—three badges, three mirrors, and one dark city.

**Mood tags**: neon-soaked, paranoid, raw

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.2/10 (655630 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 99% · Metacritic 91/100

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