Synopsis
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
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Cast
- Clint EastwoodSteve Everett
- Isaiah WashingtonFrank Louis Beechum
- LisaGay HamiltonBonnie Beechum
- James WoodsAlan Mann
- Denis LearyBob Findley
- Bernard HillWarden Luther Plunkitt
- Diane VenoraBarbara Everett
- Michael McKeanRéverend Shillerman
- Michael JeterDale Porthouse
- Mary McCormackMichelle Ziegler
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Tribune
This is an old-fashioned movie done with wit, grace, smarts and style. [19 March 1999, Friday, p.A] - 80
Slate
True Crime gives you sleaze on toast--a heap of tabloid bathos, a dusting of high-mindedness, a dash of gallows humor. It's a bizarre concoction, but it's riveting. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
It would be even better if Eastwood followed his character's lead and emphasized "real issues" over "human interest" in a story that touches on important social problems without doing much to illuminate them. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Woefully misconceived reporter-saves-innocent-man-from-execution cheese grater. - 70
The A.V. Club
As disappointing-but-worthwhile films go, you could do a lot worse. - 70
Washington Post
An anti-capital-punishment polemic that won't change a single mind anywhere on Earth but will entertain well enough everywhere on Earth. - 60
The New Republic
Eastwood has never seemed less the persona he has built through the decades, the calm yet commanding center of a storm. - 60
Washington Post
The geological equivalent of an albatross around the neck. It's another of those Warner Bros. productions that are heavy on star iconography and production values but AWOL on story.
