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True Confessions. (film) True Confessions is a 1981 American neo-noir [3] crime drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall as the brothers Spellacy, a priest and police detective. Produced by Chartoff-Winkler Productions, it is adapted from the novel of the same name by John Gregory Dunne, loosely based on ...
- $10 million
- Georges Delerue
- September 25, 1981
Sep 25, 1981 · True Confessions: Directed by Ulu Grosbard. With Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Kenneth McMillan. A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
- (8.6K)
- Crime, Drama
- Ulu Grosbard
- 1981-09-25
It's frustrating to sit through a movie filled with clues and leads and motivations, only to discover at the end that the filmmakers can't be bothered with finishing the story. Advertisement. The film is about two brothers, one a priest, the other a cop. In a nice insight in casting, Robert De Niro plays the priest and Robert Duvall plays the ...
In 1940s Los Angeles, Detective Tom Spellacy (Robert Duvall) probes into the savage murder of a woman found dumped in an empty lot. At the same time, he investigates a priest found dead in a ...
- (16)
- Ulu Grosbard
- R
- Robert De Niro
Brothers Des Spellacy and Tom Spellacy are a Catholic monsignor in the Los Angeles diocese and a LAPD homicide detective respectively. While they do get along, they spend little time together as they live their own lives. Tom has not led a totally clean life, being on the take, and once having been involved with a madam named Brenda Samuels.
True Confessions is set in the late 1940s in the Los Angeles of film noir, particularly revisionist film noirs like Chinatown (1974) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). The stars play brothers, with police detective Duvall investigating a sensationalized murder case whose victim, a prostitute nicknamed "The Virgin Tramp," has ties to the upper ...
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