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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SPACEY,KEVIN
EAN: 9780790734859
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790734850
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: April 21, 1998
Running Time: 138 minutes
Sales Rank: 3053
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1997
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Product Description:
Three police detectives each use their own approach to find the truth behind a group murder.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-JUN-2005
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video:
In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz)--a compelling blend of L.A. history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolor noir films, Chinatown. Kim Basinger richly deserved her Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a conflicted femme fatale; unfortunately, her male costars are so uniformly fine that they may have canceled each other out with the Academy voters: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, and James Cromwell play LAPD officers of varying stripes. Pearce's character is a particularly intriguing study in Hollywood amorality and ambition, a strait-laced 'hero' (and son of a departmental legend) whose career goals outweigh all other moral, ethical, and legal considerations. If he's a good guy, it's only because he sees it as the quickest route to a promotion. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "I admire you as a policeman - particularly your adherence to violence as a necessary adjunct to the job. "
Film noir continues to be one of the most difficult genres to make well particularly today (I'd note for purists that film noirs are largely in black & white a fixture of the genre). Film directors can't hide the flaws of a noir behind big explosions, car chases or visual effects. "L.A. COnfidential" probably isn't for everyone because it combines the film noir genre with a solid mystery and strong dramatic performances.
Set in Los Angeles during the early 1950's, "L.A. Confidential" ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent, acting was top drawer.
This is my first glimpse of Russell Crowe, and omg, what a hunk o' man. Does he have any brothers? I haven't seen a leading man in decades that looked and acted all man like him. I will see any movie he is in, no matter how crummy. Just to drool at him. Bring back the real leading men like him, not the whiney, ugly, wimps we've been enduring since the eighties.
Rating: - They dont make movies like this anymore!
To call this movie superb...is an understatement.
A spectacular film that should have taken home every major Academy Award.
Proof that the Academy has truly lost touch with what making a film is all about
Best Actor: Russel Crowe
Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Spacey Or Guy Pierce (pick one)
Best Picture (titanic.???? really???)
Best Actress: Kim Basinger (which she received)
Best Director: Curtis Hanson
The great thing about this film is the 3 protaganist ... Read More
Rating: - The Best Film of the 1997
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I don't care if TITANIC did win the Oscar. For my money, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL was the best film of 1997.
Scratch That! It's the best picture to come out of Hollywood in the last 20 years.
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is prime film noir. It ranks right up there with the great ones, such as DOUBLE INDEMNITY, OUT OF THE PAST and THE BIG SLEEP. And, as much as I admire and consistently enjoy those classic movies, I think that L.A. ... Read More
Rating:  - Movie: 4.5/5 Picture Quality: 4.25/5 Sound Quality: 4/5 Extras: 3.5/5
Version: U.S.A / Warner Brothers / Region A, B, C
VC-1 BD-50 / 1080p / 23.976fps / Advanced Profile 3
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Running time: 2:17:53
Movie size: 34,02 GB
Disc size: 42,31 GB
Average video bit rate: 22.91 Mbps
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1464 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1464kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio ... Read More
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