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# L.A. Confidential (1997)
- URL: https://justincox.com/blog/2024/05/l-a-confidential-1997/
- Published: 2024-05-20T00:40:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-20T13:41:45.000Z
- Description: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Author: Justin Cox
- Tags: Review, #movies, #russell-crowe, #guy-pearce, #kevin-spacey, #kim-basinger, #curtis-hanson, #4stars, #affiliate

## Director

Curtis Hanson

## Staring

Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, and Kim Basinger

## Overview

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

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

## Review

![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/lWCgf5sD5FpMljjpkRhcC8pXcch.jpg) 

#### L.A. Confidential

Dark and layered. The kind of movie that doesn’t really exist any more. It’s also got themes that wouldn’t really work — police brutality, dirty cops, and the whole Kevin Spacy thing. It’s still a great movie, though.

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