True Crime

Genre: Crime

Worldwide gross$16.7M

Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood), Oakland Tribune journalist with a passion for women and alcohol, is given the coverage of the upcoming execution of murderer Frank Louis Beachum (Isaiah Washington). His attractive colleague Michelle Ziegler (Mary McCormack) died in a car accident the night before. Bob Findley (Denis Leary), Steve's boss and husband to Steve's current affair, wants him dead and gone as soon as possible. When Steve stumbles across the possibility of Frank Louis Beachum being innocently on death row, Bob feels his time to have come. Now Steve only has a few hours left to prove the innocence of Frank and to be right with this theory, as he definitely will be history if he's not.

🏆 5 nominations total

Genres

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director

Clint Eastwood

Cast

Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton

Released

19 March 1999

Runtime

2h 7m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.6 / 10

Votes

40,618

Metascore

64

Rotten Tomatoes

59%

Box office

$16,649,768

Budget

$55,000,000

Edition

Base