Our contracting and expanding team played it safe by staying at home and watching the 1997 neo-noir film LA Confidential this week. I brought this film to the group because it is one of my favorite films of the 1990s. It is well-written and directed and each cast member -- Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, James Cromwell and accused sexual harasser Kevin Spacey -- gives the best performance of their career. It is also a sentimental favorite. This is the first film I saw with my lovely wife.
The film was also a good choice for our troubled times. This is a film about a corrupt, old school police department where bribes oil the machinery of justice, minorities are targeted as convenient scapegoats, confessions are beaten out of suspects, and brutal beat downs are routinely administered. No cop is completely clean in the film. They all bend the rules to achieve their goals. Most of them, however, learn that the ends do not always justify the means. Or do they?
Full disclosure: A producer recently sent one of my scripts out to James Cromwell with a firm offer. He turned it down..... Too bad. I would have loved to have worked with him.
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