True Confessions

True Confessions
by Ulu Grosbard

True Confessions
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Actor: Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, Kenneth McMillan, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: True Confessions DVD
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a great movie the meaning of which does not diminish over time. Conflicts between brothers are explored as are conflicts in beliefs systems. The movie addresses human falibity in the face of the seductiveness of power and the enduring windows of opportunity opened up by the power of forgiveness.

Summary of True Confessions

Detective Tom Spellacy (Duvall) and Catholic Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (De Niro) find their worlds colliding amidst a flurry of political finger-pointing and public outcries over a scandalous, headline-making murder. As Tom hunts down the elusive killer, his investigation threatens to expose secrets that could ruin his brother?...and rock the foundation of his beloved church.
John Gregory Dunne turned the true story of Los Angeles's Black Dahlia murder case into a compelling novel and then adapted the novel (with wife Joan Didion) for this meaty movie mystery directed by Ulu Grosbard. A study of the ways power corrupts, and the way corruption consumes the soul, the film stars Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro as a pair of brothers (a cynical police detective and a rapidly rising monsignor, respectively) who come into conflict over the case of a murdered woman in 1940s Hollywood. De Niro gives a beautifully shaded performance, while Duvall, who never gives a bad one, gets the slightly flashier role. Yet there's nothing showy about Duvall, who gets under the skin of this cop and who knows better than to get personally involved in a case but ultimately can't help it. A fine supporting cast includes Kenneth McMillan, Charles Durning, and Burgess Meredith. Maybe too studied for some, but worth watching if only for the two leads. --Marshall Fine

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