“Off the Record. On the QT. And Very Hush-Hush”
L.A. Confidential was a movie made in 1997, with the actors Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Danny DeVito, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, and Kim Basinger, based off of the 1990 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy. This movie was directed by Curtis Hanson, the director of the movies 8 Mile and, In Her Shoes. L.A. Confidential tells the story of the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1950’s and the corruption between them. The film is based around three police officers who find themselves tangled in a multiple murder case that occurred at the ‘Night Owl’ coffee shop. Sergeant Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) is an officer working as a technical advisor in a TV show called ‘Badge of Honor’ and is also associated with Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito) of Hush-Hush magazine. Where he sometimes stages celebrity arrests that deal with narcotics for Hush-Hush and receives a part of the profit in return. Officer Wendell “Bud White” (Russell Crowe) is the muscle of the LAPD and is feared by everyone because of his brute figure and his short tolerance of violence towards women. His tough exterior is no match for Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger), a call girl and Veronica Lake look-alike, who sees more in Bud then he sees in himself. Sergeant Edmund Exley (Guy Pearce) is the son of a high-profiled LAPD Inspector who will stop at nothing to outdo his father’s reputation. Not poplar among the other officers, Exely decides to testify against his fellow coworkers during a police brutality case to be promoted to Detective Lieutenant, even though it goes against his superior, Captain Dudley Smith’s (James Cromwell) advice.
Little do they know, the Night Owl case will unleash lies and cover-ups that they never thought possible along with some of their own personal demons.
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