L.A. Confidential . Newcity Chicago . 10-27-97

L.A. Confidential

DIRECTED BY: Curtis Hanson

REVIEWED: 10-27-97

Hanson's unlikely distillation of James Ellroy's vigorously plotted novel "L..A. Confidential" is a slashingly-paced 140-minute thriller starring Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce, a pair of Australians, as two complex cops in a 1953 Hollywood intrigue. It also stars James Cromwell as the silkily menacing L.A. police chief, Kevin Spacey as a Dean Martin-cool cop who's technical advisor to an early television show much like "Dragnet," Kim Basinger as a Veronica Lake-like siren and Danny DeVito as a gleeful dervish of dirt who collaborates with Spacey in digging out the lowdown among the Hollywood highlife for his Hush-Hush sleaze-rag. Panavision.

--Ray Pride

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