L.A. Confidential(1997)
Everything is suspect... Everyone is for sale... And nothing is what it seems.
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Movie: L.A. Confidential
Top 10 Billed Cast
Jack Vincennes
Wendell 'Bud' White
Edmund 'Ed' Exley
Dudley Smith
Lynn Bracken
Sid Hudgens
Pierce Patchett
D.A. Ellis Loew
Dick Stensland
Susan Lefferts
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"L.A. Confidential" winning Best Adapted Screenplay
Kim Basinger winning Best Supporting Actress
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