La Rue

Manhattan night. Distant sirens. A typewriter clacking. Journalist makes up a pimp for a story. The fiction too closely resembles an actual, dangerous man facing trial. Soon the writer is caught between the law and the streets. Schatzberg’s late-period crime films have a bitter aftertaste.

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Jerry Schatzberg directed La Rue in 1987. See Jerry Schatzberg's full filmography, where to start with Jerry Schatzberg, or where to go after you've seen everything by Jerry Schatzberg.

La Rue was released in 1987 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 97 minutes.